A child's efforts and parenting presence!

 

The beginnings of movements lasting for short spells, lay the foundation for progress and stability for the progress in movements. 

In my experience in child development, such occasions are the inspiring moments for the parents and affirming to children to be consistent in their efforts. 

Parents need patience and hope and children need encouragement and incentives to sustain these efforts. 

Having watched efforts of infants and toddlers to move on in their developmental sequence, I feel within that the instinct of a child to charter his or her developmental progress is conditioned by the opportunities offered to the child. The support of the mother to help this child is evident and facilitatory. 

The nature of the child is to follow the trajectory of development at his or her pace. The nurture needed to make it happen is the parental contribution. 

I recall the stories of parents whom I remember who were sensitive to sense the readiness of a child to move on to the next step in the developmental progression. That anticipatory step often helped a child to move on to the next level of movement, communication, socialisation and exploration. 

The parenting presence is the affirmative environment that infants and toddlers would need in the developmental journey. 

Let me therefore suggest that entertaining a child with cartoons and several other programme on the visual screen in the mobile phone or TV cannot be a substitute during infancy and toddler years. The human interface is what promotes the interactive and communicative ambience upon which the developmental pace is dependent on! 

Let me complement all fathers and mothers who have given utmost attention to promote their child's learning pursuit by their presence and engagement.

When a child is developmentally challenged, the patience of the parents would be tested! Even in such situation, an infant or a toddler would draw encouragement by the augmented efforts of parents! Such an augmented parenting defines the progress a child would make developmentally! 

It is during this week we celebrate the Father's day internationally!

I want to remember all parents who anchor their infants and toddlers into a world of opportunities by their interactive presence! Anna and I greet them in appreciation!

M.C.Mathew(text and photo)