Parenting Tip #10 - Celebrate Milestones
Take time to celebrate small and big developmental milestones in your child’s life. Celebration can simply mean an action showing happiness or appreciation of a child’s accomplishments. It can be a form of verbal praise, a kiss, an embrace or a simple token of appreciation. Be careful of giving a child too many material rewards. Instead, try to focus more on verbal and physical actions.
So true. I have a premature son and it may have taken him a little longer to reach each of his milestones but when he did it was so exciting. He loves when we make a big deal of things. We don’t even have to spend money, just acknowledge his success and give him a lot of praise.
Comment by Dadinmichigan — April 30, 2008 @ 6:16 am
Yes, that’s true! but sometimes we tend to give them material things as that is what they would love the most.
Comment by JO — May 3, 2008 @ 12:43 pm