Parenting: The First Three Years fosters child development and readiness to learn

The curriculum guides parents in developing the following key practices that experts* agree are fundamental to school readiness, including:

• Nurturing the parent-child bond through parental sensitivity and responsiveness
• Stimulating an excitement and love for learning through healthy exploration
• Structuring the home environment for safety and success
• Providing activities that foster small and large muscle development
• Setting up daily routines to scaffold children's learning
• Helping children learn to share and cooperate with others
• Fostering emergent literacy skills through play, shared reading, and parent-child activities
• Encouraging healthy language and communication development
• Promoting critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Guiding children in effectively managing upsets and anger
• Supporting children's developing self-regulation
• Showing empathy and sensitivity to the feelings of others
• Modeling and guiding children in expressing their emotions appropriately

* The National School Readiness Indicators Initiative