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Summary: Learn about early child developmental steps and how to meet your child's needs at each stage from a pediatric nurse in this free children's health video.
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Patti Billings Patti Billings graduated from Loma Linda University in CA with a degree in nursing and a masters degree in public health. She attended the University of CA a... read more
Hi! This is Patti Billings. I am a certified pediatric nurse practitioner on behalf of expertvillage.com. In this clip, we are going to talk about experiences of how they affect the early development of children and their learning abilities. There have been many studies that have shown that early brain development is affected by the quality of care and the different experiences that children receive. From birth to 12 months, children really need lots of nurturing and physical care. They need to be fed and loved and held and feel that their world is secure and as a result, then they can start to learn that when you know certain things happen like they cry, their needs are met and their parents will help hold them and feed them. As they get older, 1-2 year old becomes much more independent and wants to be down and does not want to be held. They want to have a variety of experiences. They want to have you know, things to color, they want books to read, they want to play, swing and run and just have sometime to explore all kinds of things. Then from 2-3, children start to integrate more of that into their personality and start to become more social with other children and it is very important at about three, that they start to interact socially with other children and that’s how they develop some of their relationships.