Parents can help a child to play. Children learn how to behave by imitating the behaviour of those closest to them. Young children easily become angry, frightened, and tearful. Patience, understanding and sympathy with the child's emotions will help the child to grow up happy, well balanced, and well behaved. Children need frequent approval and encouragement.
Physical punishment is bad for a child's development.
The foundations of learning well in school can be built by the parents in the earliest years of a child's life. A parent is the best observer of a child's development. So all parents should know the warning signs which mean that a child is not making normal progress and that something may be wrong. I O N Babies begin to learn rapidly from the moment they are born. By age two, most of the growth of the human brain is already complete.