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This guidebook is an invitation for providers and programs to strengthen their understanding of how to engage with families in a way that honors and affirms their culture.

Play is essential for your child’s learning and development. It helps them practice new skills, learn to experiment, explore and persevere. When you play together, you will be supporting their early speech, language and communication skills and boosting their self-esteem too.

From day one, children are eager and determined to understand how the world works. They do this through play, using all the “tools” they have at their disposal. This brochure explores how play supports all areas of children’s development. 

Playful exploration is a natural way of learning. Explore how caregivers and professionals can encourage and promote play-based learning.

Explore the different definitions of play and why it is so important in this News You Can Use. This is useful information for home visitors, program staff, caregivers, and others serving infants and toddlers through Early Head Start and Migrant and Seasonal Head Start. Play benefits every aspect of child development as infants and toddlers explore their world and their bodies, while also learning about and mastering relationships and social skills.

All children—from infants to school-age children and even teens—need time to play every day. Play allows children to be active, calm their minds, follow their own ideas, pretend, be creative, and build physical, social, and intellectual skills. In fact, play is the main way that young children learn.

How does play benefit children and support their healthy development? Watch this video to learn how play helps build children’s brains, strengthens core life skills, and fosters resilience to hardship. 

It is natural for today’s parents and caregivers to wonder about the role screens play in the lives of the babies and toddlers they love. Because ultimately, babies today are born into a world where screens and human interaction are often seamlessly interwoven. Screen Sense describes what is known at this time about the effect of screen media on young children’s learning and development.

Parents wonder whether screen time is educational, distracting, or both. It’s important to consider how and how much your little ones use screens.

Research shows that babies and young children do get stressed and do have memories of trauma. Both babies and children feel stress in their bodies and show stress through their behaviors. The good news is that you can do things to protect and help your child-even if life is stressful.