This chapter consists of 9 lessons showing you how to support your child to develop their interest in the world and in relationships, and to learn to play and talk through interactive play.
Each chapter includes
- Overview & practical tips for nurturing a child from a relational perspective
- Examples & real stories of children's interactive developmental progress
- Strategies & interaction techniques to build relationships and support communication and language
- Practical tips for interactive play ideas and joyful engagement that is emotionally responsive to the child
- Checklists to download as PDFs
Some of the things in this chapter may be a surprise and invite you to engage with the child in new and perhaps unfamiliar ways with the aim of finding joyful togetherness, because 'when you see a child differently, you see a different child!
Lesson 1: The SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL development of PLAY & LANGUAGE
Lesson 2: The BRAIN is transformed through EXPERIENCE
Lesson 3: Appreciating INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
Lesson 4: From CO-REGULATION to SELF-REGULATION
Lesson 5: INTEREST & emotional ENGAGEMENT
Lesson 6: LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT begins with INTERACTION
Lesson 7: DIALOGUE & SHARED EXPERIENCE
Lesson 8: Growing up with MORE THAN 1 LANGUAGE
Lesson 9: CONNECTING IDEAS meaningfully & STORY TELLING