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Heart to Heart: Ideas for Building Strong Ties Between Parents and Young Children
 
You can create a positive relationship with your child by understanding your child's needs and behavior. This fact sheet offers tips to parents and professionals on how to create a happy and healthy parent-child relationship.

The following fact sheet is provided courtesy of the Research and Training Center on Early Childhood Development.

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Heart to Heart: Ideas for Building Strong Ties Between Parents and Young Children

There are few experiences as enjoyable as happy parent-child interaction. To make this responsive interaction style a natural part of everyday life with your young child, put this three-point approach into practice. You might find it easier to use it if you think in terms of three simple questions. Think of it as the Three-What? Approach. Ask yourself:

  • What is my child doing?
  • What does this behavior tell me?
  • What will I do in response?

 

Heart to Heart: Ideas for Building Strong Ties Between Parents and Young Children. Research and Training Center on Early Childhood Development. 2004. English. [PDF, 164KB].

Last Reviewed: December 2010

Last Updated: December 7, 2010