# How Parents of Toddlers Can Support Social-Emotional Development

## Respond to your child's needs

- Understand your child’s verbal communication and know how to respond.
- Support your child’s emotional needs.
- Successfully redirect your child’s inappropriate behaviors.
- Provide your child with safe care and supervision.
- Provide access to regular medical and dental care for your child.

## Provide predictable schedule/routines and an appropriate environment for your child

- Provide a mealtime routine for your child that is predictable and appropriate for your child's age.
- Provide a rest and sleeping routine for your child that is predictable and appropriate for your child's age.
- Provide your child with predictable limits and consequences.
- Take time each day to play with your child.
- Know the age-appropriate games that your child enjoys.

## Provide activities that match your child's development level

Adapted from Social-Emotional Assessment/Evaluation Measure (SEAM™), Research Edition by Jane Squires, Ph.D., Diane Bricker, Ph.D., Misti Waddell, M.S., Kristin Funk, M.A., LCSW, Jantina Clifford, Ph.D., & Robert Hoselton, B.S. © 2014 Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., Inc. All rights reserved. SEAM™ and the SEAM logo are trademarks of Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., Inc.

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