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Love Listen Learn Lead Challenging Behaviours Feeding your Child Discipline Milestones Attachment Brain Development Separation Anxiety Temperament Language Development Excited About Books Reading Skills Role Model Activities with Your Child Contact Information	You Are: Home | Your Health | UR a Parent | Learn Index          You can help relieve some of your frustration and help your children grow by learning about child development.   Your child's experiences in the early months and years of life affect his/her health, well-being, and coping skills for the rest of his/her life. Your caring, nurturing, and safe parenting help ensure your baby's optimal development. During the toddler years, your child will grow and learn rapidly.    Child development is typically described in five areas:  physical  social  emotional  cognitive  language  While there are milestones, development is not a race. Each child grows and develops at his/her own pace.   You can support and guide your child’s development through activities in each of these four areas: Learning to think and play  Seeing and using hands  Hearing, speech and language  Learning to move  Click here for activities to help children of different age groups learn and grow. More Resources: Best Start, Healthy Baby, Healthy Brains - Baby’s World Matters (video)   Child Development, Eastern Health Your Health A to Z Ages and Stages, My Child’s Development - Parent 2 Parent About Kids Health, Toronto Hospital for Sick Children  Learning to Play and Playing to Learn: Getting ready for school Tweet     Updated Jun 22, 2018