Materials for Patients and Families

The Importance of Movement provides parents with information about the importance of physical movement in a child’s physical, intellectual, communicative, and emotional development. Also provides fun physical activities for parents to play with children broken down by age range.

Support Your Child's Relationship Building Skills describes the importance of establishing emotional connections through trust and intimacy throughout the early years of life.  Provides tips and activities for parents to encourage emotional-relationship development in their children.

Nurturing Your Child's Development Provides age-specific summaries of infant brain development, skills being acquired and activities for parents to promote healthy psychological development.

Social Emotional Development from Birth-Three Learn what you can do to support social emotional development for your child.

Learning Self Control from Birth-Three focuses on how children begin to learn self-control—the ability to manage their emotions and stick to the limits you set. While babies aren’t born with self-control, they begin the process of developing this skill in their first months with the guidance of caring adults.

Self Confidence suggestions for parents on promoting children’s sense of self-confidence.

Helping Your Child Learn to Cooperate suggestions for parents on encouraging their child’s ability to cooperate with others.

Helping Your Child Learn to Communicate suggestions to parents on supporting children’s language and communicationskills.

Helping Your Child be Persistant suggestions to parents on encouraging their children to “stick-to-it” and persist in the face of challenges.

Learning Self Control suggestions to parents for helping children learn to manage their emotions and learn the skill ofself-control.

Nurturing Your Child's Curiosity suggestions to parents for encouraging their children’s interest and joy in the world around them.

Toddlers Who Bite Learn why toddlers bite, what to do when it happens, and how your child can develop more acceptable ways of expressing herself and meeting her needs.

Toddlers and Challenging Behavior Learn why toddlers offer up their share of challenging behavior and read up on the different ways you can help them learn to express their strong feelings in acceptable ways.

Promoting Children's Social Emotional Development through Preschool -This policy brief describes
the importance of social and emotional development for children in their earliest years and as they grow older and describes the characteristics of those preschool education programs that best support these aspects of development.

Additional Resources from Zero To Three on Social Emotional Development