This document discusses how an awareness of child development and diversity can help parents better support their children's needs. It notes that children's behaviors and skills vary according to their age and development stage. The document encourages parents to respect their children's individual learning paces, potentials, and limitations. It provides resources for parents to learn more about age-appropriate behaviors and tips to help meet their children's needs at different stages of development.

1. Supporting Parenting
Block 1:
Families Contribution to
Children's Development
and Learning
Child
development
Children ages
Children
diversity
Physical,
intellectual,
emotional,
development
Some Ideas to Start…

2. Didyou
know
that....?
Research indicates that children show different
behaviours and skills according to their age and
development stage.
When parents are aware of what
behaviours and skills are expected from
their children according to their age, they
can adapt and adjust their parenting
styles and expectations better.
In this block you will be able to check your
information about children’s expected
behaviour according to their development
stage as well as to reflect about their
diversity regarding their abilities and skills.
This helps parents to respect
their children's learning pace as
well as their potentials and
limitations.
You will also have the opportunity
to be more aware of what some
of your children's needs are and
how you can help them to cope
with those needs.

3. Before going through the activities,
please watch the following videos
and collect some tips

4. You can find more videos and useful tips regarding different
topics of children's wellbeing at different ages at
http://www.familylives.org.uk/how-we-can-
help/parentchannel-tv