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PARENTS Before you begin bathing your child, have all supplies within arm's reach and in front of you. DO NOT leave a baby unattended for even a second. If you need to leave the bathroom, take the baby with you. DO NOT rely on older children to watch the baby for you. Never leave a child unattended while filling the bathtub and always empty bathwater immediately after use. Babies can drown in as little as one inch of water. MY WORD: You never can be too careful when children are near any body of water.

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PARENTS The potential for intelligent behavior does not simply unfold. Its development needs experience, encouragement, affection, and tender, loving care along with stimulation from the environment. (Enriching the environment of a culturally deprived child can bring striking improvements in intelligence test scores, especially if a child is quite young at the time of the change.)MY WORD: Cognitive development is challenging for parents.

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PARENTS: Children also talk out loud to themselves while doing things, rehearsing words to go with actions. As the child learns and becomes more familliar with language, this self-talk becomes abbreviatd, then whispered. Finally, it disappears, absorbed into the thinking process. MY WORD: It is interesting to see how children develope mentally.