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Love Listen Learn Lead Attachment Brain Development Challenging Behaviours Excited About Books Feeding your Child Language Development Milestones Reading Skills Role Model Separation Anxiety Temperament 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  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  Tweet     Updated Jun 21, 2016