Parent Tips

Emotion regulation is the ability to control one’s emotion so that the response to the environment is socially appropriate.

The idea is to supplement your verbal messages to your child by using an additional way to communicate.

It is important that children are exposed to a variety of fine-motor activities to help develop good hand strength.

Children build on their strengths and work on their weaknesses. This is one of the most important things to keep in mind when we are with the children.

Bubbles and rubber ducks are bath time favourites. Did you know that you could use these and many other toys to work on language?

Behaviours can be viewed as communication. There are reasons why children act the way they do, same goes for tantrums and misbehaviours.

Protecting your child’s voice from day-to-day is essential to help them prevent voice problems. Problems can appear as children straining to talk, getting tired easily when talking or changes in their voice quality.

A few books can help to guide families in exploring various emotions. These books explore that all feelings are okay, but it is what and how we deal with emotions that is important.

Filled with opportunities to request for, and talk about, favourite foods and drinks, snack time is wonderful for developing communication skills. This everyday activity is not only great for learning language but also helps facilitate parent-child bonding.

The style of parenting can make it either easier or harder for your children to master their emotional milestones.