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How the victim was approached by a predator? Often, in the early days, the predators show a positive impression on children. They showed an interest in small children and often pleasing to them. Predators are also studying the behavior of children, their likes and dislikes. In essence, they pretend to share interests, background, experience or anything similar to entice children.

What exactly is their main objective? They are basically criminals and evil people whose intent is to make someone fall victim to increasing access to the victim and cover up the goal so as not to sniff or expressed by others, even by the victim. The aim is also to make predatory potential victims feel comfortable enough to be close to the attacker, for just the two predators and to perform sexual acts clandestinely.
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These are 4 simple steps in teaching your children to say I’m sorry.

For convenience, the following five simple steps how to get toddlers to apologize:

1. Samples
Model how should pardon the word pronounced. For example, a parent child accidentally spilled milk, say, “Excuse me, honey, I accidentally spilled your milk.” So does with another mistake. The hope is children will be accustomed to seeing the people closest to say sorry when making mistakes.

2. Show remorse with body language
Make eye contact for the word apology, so that children can feel the remorse that accompanied the apology. Holding hands, hugging tightly, or the smell will also be emulated children while parents apologized with body language like that. But for the record, (more…)

Knowing the numbers trains the child’s memory. Practice without coercion and with a pleasant manner.

Benefits of being familiar with numbers

Toddler age is the right time to introduce children to numbers.. Do not worry your child will “giddy” or reject it. The important thing is how to have fun. There are many benefits children can get from knowing numbers, including: the child becomes familiar with the numbers that will be encountered throughout his life, and subsequently more easily give understanding the meaning of numbers. In addition, knowing the number could be one way to train a child’s memory.

Being introduced to numbers is the sooner the better. But do not force the child too much, such as introducing direct operations and added a count less. Although there are one or two kids who can master it in the toddler age, it is a special case. What also must be considered is the readiness of the child mental function. In general the first stage, the toddler is familiar with numbers 1-10.

Having mastered these skills, should proceed with meaning. For example is when holding an apple, explain the number and the symbol of the number. Thus children can code number one in terms of the quantity. Through the concrete object the child more likely to reach an understanding. After that, children should be introduced with greater numbers, for example up to 20.
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There is some typical behaviors of toddlers that are potential to injure themselves:

1. Running with their eyes closed

When children started to run, they will feel a special sensation, i.e., a gust of wind, and adrenaline increase. This sensation will be felt even more thrilling when they did it with their eyes closed.

How to handle:
* Ask with a simple language that is easy to understand why children do the activity.
* Explain the dangers if she ran her eyes closed.
* Model how ran without closing his eyes, but as much fun. For example, while pretending to be a cat chasing a mouse as he spread his hands.
* If this habit continues until well past the age of three yearly, you should immediately consult the doctor. Sensory child might not yet well integrated and thus require a sensation that can satisfy those needs.

2. Spinning Around

Children feel the pleasant sensation called sensation of sudden intensity changes. This pleasure will be increased when parents give a positive response with a laugh when she saw the child stagger, or consider “cute” kids who pretended to fall in after spinning nonstop. Appropriate stages of development, this positive response will be caught the attention or respect the child as a parent, so he tends to repeat them. (more…)

5 EASY STEPS

Teaching children to know letters and to read should be done with the fun without any target. Note that they should do it in a fun way and nit being forced. This is what you can do:

1. Installing carpet letters

Put the letters in a child’s bedroom carpet. Currently, there are a lot of available carpets with a pattern of letters and draw pictures made of rubber material that can be disposed-off or wool. Thus every day without the child realizing, they are familiar with the various forms of letters. Parents can teach casually at a child, “Come on, boy, wear your clothes while standing on top of the letter ‘B’.

Note:
When children are allergic to rubber, parents can replace them with wallpaper letters.
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