CONNECTING

Learn more about building trusting relationships for healthy child development, the importance of loving touch, and being curious about who your child is becoming.

A child's development is in your hands.

Holding, hugging and cuddling your child are key to their development and helps to build their brain.

Healthy touch is an essential part of healthy child development. From birth, physical contact between caregiver and child promotes brain development, creates attachment, and helps children feel more secure and connected to you.

FURTHER LEARNING

ATTACHMENT HOW-TO'S

The Parent Toolkit is produced by NBC News Education Nation in the US using the CASEL framework.

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AFFECTION, TOUCH AND WELL-BEING

Emerging research on touch shows how wide an effect it has on our social and emotional development.

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THE IMPORTANCE OF TOUCH FOR BABIES & BEYOND

The Parent Toolkit is produced by NBC News Education Nation in the US using the CASEL framework.

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