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PARENTS: Introduce simple picture and story books as the baby grows. The shapes and colors will delight, and listening leads to learning. Make the bedtime story a regular family event. Even children will enjoy reading aloud if the right books are selected. Give books as gifts. Let your children know you think books are important. Have children read aloud while you cook, iron, sew, sort laundry. MY WORD Include the library in your every day activities.

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PARENTS: Children who go on trips, walk in parks, and visit museums and zoos get good background knowledge for school reading. You can borrow records and tapes from the library that have follow-along books for your yourng children. They add a variety to reading activities. MY WORD libraries have the lastest technology in different ways to read.

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PARENTS: Some experts feel that if the motivation for play comes from the child it is play, but if it comes from outside it is work. Four-year-olds may keep their group life intact by scapegoating an innocent person. At about age 3, the issues of power and violence arrive in play. Children practice power tactics on each other (such as threats, pushes, kicks, screams, and fights). MY WORD: children need to be taught the proper attitude in play.