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Can a toddler play group be life-changing? This one is.

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The parent-toddler group at Hanna Perkins Center for Child Development, in Shaker Heights, isn’t an ordinary play group; every moment has purpose.

While children play, they’re also getting a head start on their first school experience, learning to manage important things like transitions, excitement, sharing, waiting and following instructions.

Meanwhile, parents get help seeing these stress points from the child’s perspective. Our credentialed staff provides eye-opening developmental insights and useful tools for parents to understand, help and enjoy their children in a ...

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Behavior is how young children communicate

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When young children misbehave, it’s not because they want to act badly; it’s because they’re having a strong feeling of some kind, and don’t yet have the skill or vocabulary to express it in words.

In that context, rather than discipline or punishment, a helpful adult will work with the child to understand the feeling and find a better way to deal with it.

Here’s an excerpt from a webcast of Hanna Perkins Therapist Deborah Paris, LISW, BCD, on the important concept of ...

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Solo time together

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With his wife out of town, our fearless encore dad tackles Day 3 of solo parenting:

We have taken the walk down to our local library hundreds of times.

We usually wander side by side, with her occasionally climbing up to walk on a wall, or venture up some steps into someone’s yard, or splash in a puddle her father has told her not to splash in.
But as we near the library there is a long hedgerow – about ...
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