Parenting Tips

Monitor your children

When your child is playing quietly - catch him being good! Don’t fall the old trap that you don’t want to disturb him. Check on your child frequently ( at first, every 10 minutes or so; then gradually decrease your monitoring to every 30 minutes or so ) you can then give him lots of feedback on what he is doing. But doing disturb activities that you wish to encourage, a five or ten second interaction is all that is necessary.