Parenting Tips & Activities
Parenting tips and parent-child activities that promote learning and development, as well as encourage bonding and attachment.
Parent-Child Activity: Learning Through Play
Children learn through play! This simple parent-child activity helps kids notice and copy patterns, and practice waiting their turn.
Parent-Child Activity: Learning and Moving
This parent-child activity encourages bonding while developing gross and fine motor skills and building language skills.
The Father You Choose to Be
If you are a father—or a grandfather, male caregiver or other father figure in the family—don’t take the role lightly. Tips for being the father you choose to be.
First Steps When a Child is Hard of Hearing
There are many resources for families who have just found out their child is deaf or hard of hearing. Soon you’ll find ways to embrace a new way of life, one with many beautiful surprises.
Parent Coaching Ideas You Can Use
Any Baby Can's parent coaching model empowers parents with skills and confidence that can be transferred to many parts of life.
More Harmony, Less Stress with Family Rules
Create practical family rules to improve kids’ cooperation and reduce the need for discipline in your home.
Will social distance affect my child’s development?
Parents are worried about how being away from peers will affect their kids socially, emotionally and developmentally. But there are practical steps you can take to support your child’s development and keep social distance.
Understanding Your Child’s Reaction to Crisis, by Age Group
Everyone is stressed right now – kids and adults alike. Learn how children of different ages respond to crises in their own unique ways.
Parents, Put Your Oxygen Mask on First
Tips for parents to help their kids cope with the impact of COVID-19, starting with prioritizing your own needs.
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Understanding Your Child’s Behaviors and Needs
Children's behaviors are often a way of communicating their unmet needs. Learn about four common needs that can contribute to challenging behaviors.
Support Your Child Through Medical Trauma
In this blog post, we explore what medical trauma is and provide strategies for parents to minimize and address medical trauma in their children.
Make Animal Face Plates: Joint Attention
This paper plate activity is inexpensive and easy to do, plus it encourages joint attention and working together on a task.
Nurturing Family Rituals & Routines
Family rituals help you think about your daily routine in a new way: as possible moments of connection.
Shaving Cream Play Activity
There are great developmental benefits to sensory play, like this shaving cream activity from our Healthy and Fair Start program.
Advocate for Your Body and Your Blood Pressure
To safely monitor blood pressure in pregnancy, moms should understand what’s normal for your body, ask the right questions, and know when and how to express concern.
Sensory Activity: DIY Playdough
Parent-child activities, like making playdough, build a child’s ability to process sensory input and are great for bonding.
Nature Walk: Bonding and Development
Through parent-child activities like the nature walk, families can promote their kids’ development and encourage bonding.
Tummy Time and Brain Development
Learn tummy time and floor time techniques for babies zero to six months that encourage bonding and proper development.
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