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BUILDING
YOUR
TODDLERS
SOCIAL
SKILLS
With a toddler, sometimes
social situations can be
embarrassing and even
anxiety ridden.
HEALTH
learns how to build up your
toddler’s social skills to
enhance child development.
Perception
According to Carmen Benton, a
LifeWorks Parenting Educator, in order
for us to realize just how ‘primitive’
our young children’s social interactions
are we need to understand something
about child development and age
appropriateness. “Children, for example,
do not realize that there are people other
than themselves in the world until they
are between ages 14 and 24 months,”
she says, therefore a baby looking into a
mirror does not realise they are looking
at themselves and instead sees a stranger
looking back at them.
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