1. Describe why it is important to create safe and stimulating environments.
2. Provide routine and explain why it is important.
3. Provide opportunity for child to get at least 8 hours of sleep a night and explain why it is necessary.
4. Demonstrate cleaning your living space.
5. Demonstrate washing child’s clothing.
6. Demonstrate dressing child comfortably for cold or hot weather.
7. Provide choices to teach decision making.
8. Demonstrate three ways to build trust.

Activities:

Love and Logic    Learning to Trust    Difference Between Needs and Wants

PAYA    Module 2: Personal Care    Module 5: Children Ages 2 Through 5 - Making Choices    Module 5: Children Ages 2 Through 5 - Stimulations    Module 5: Making the World a Better Place

Ready, Set, Fly! A Parents Guide to Teaching Life Skills    Home Cleaning #7    Home Cleaning #8

What To Expect    Toddler - Stimulating Environments    Toddler - Sleep Requirements    Toddler - Routine    Toddler - Reading    Toddler - Clothing

Web Resources    Cleaning 101    Just Ask Jane    Parents Magazine    The American Academy of Pediatrics    The Parent Center/Baby Center

1. Demonstrate baby proofing a home (e.g., removing unsafe and dangerous items from places child can go or reach).
2. Demonstrate how to keep child safe in the crib.
3. Create and describe fire safety plan for your home.
4. Explain what to do if a baby swallows a poisonous substance.
5. eProvide safe toys for toddlers.
6. Describe the pros and cons of walkers and playpens.
7. Describe the best/safest way for toddlers to go down stairs.
8. Supervise child in and around water.
9. Describe how to perform CPR on a child.
10. Describe why to only leave child with known and trusted people.
11. Avoid smoking cigarettes when in the same room as a child.
12. Avoid using illegal drugs around child.
13. Describe how to get help if you or your child is in danger.
14. Describe how to find shelter or safety in an emergency.

Activities:

PAYA    Module 5: Safety

What To Expect    Toddler - Crib Safety    Toddler - Walkers    Toddler - Animal Safety    Toddler - Bedroom Safety    Toddler - Machine Safety    Toddler - Keeping Your Child Safe from: fire, poison, home, air quality, water, stroller, gates, kitchen, bath, outside play areas, care and pets

Web Resources    Parent Soup    The American Academy of Pediatrics    The Parent Center/Baby Center

1. Explain how to select a safe car seat.
2. Demonstrate installing a car seat safely.
3. Demonstrate securing a child in a car seat safely.
4. Describe why not to leave a child alone in a car, even for a few minutes.

Activities:

PAYA    Module 5: Safety

What To Expect    Toddler - Keeping Your Child Safe from: fire, poison, home, air quality, water, stroller, gates, kitchen, bath, outside play areas, care and pets

Web Resources    Fit For A Kid

1. Tell why not to expose child to any kind of violent behaviors.
2. Describe the impact on children of witnessing domestic violence.
3. Keep home free from violence.
4. Explain why it is not okay to hit a child.
5. Tell why children should not watch too much TV, especially violence.
6. Describe the impact on children of watching violence (e.g., on movies or on TV).
7. Describe how to respond when a child is exposed to violence outside the home.

Activities:

PAYA    Module 5: Children Ages 2 Through 5 - Stimulations

What To Expect    Toddler - Spanking    Toddler - Television

Web Resources    The American Academy of Pediatrics    The Parent Center/Baby Center

1. Describe ways parents are role models for their child.
2. Describe how your personal problem solving skills and social interactions with others influence your child.
3. Describe why routines and traditions are important.
4. Tell at least two traditions you will celebrate with your child (e.g., a special birthday dinner, reading each day as a family).
5. Tell why consistency and appropriate limit setting are important for a child.
6. Describe how to teach decision-making.
7. Describe why it is important to teach your child positive values.
8. Name at least three values you will teach your child, such as non-violence, and kindness.
9. Describe how to teach your child how to deal with his/her emotions, including frustration and anger.
10. Limit TV and computer viewing.

Activities:

Love and Logic    Meeting Needs - Limiting Wants    First Rule of Love and Logic    Give Your Children Advantage in Life    Turning Misbehavior into Wisdom    Violence

PAYA    Module 5: Older Babies and Toddlers    Module 5: Childres Ages 2 Through 5    Module 5: Making the World a Better Place

What To Expect    Toddler - Limit Setting    Toddler - Toys    Toddler - Routines    Toddler - Books    Toddler - Television    Toddler - Values: Respect, Family Closeness, Reading, Manners, Television, Trasmitting, Kindness to Animals, Charity, Sharing, Rules, Honesty    Toddler - Computers    Toddler - Play

Web Resources    Bright Futures: Stimulating Environments    Girls and Boys Town    The American Academy of Pediatrics    The Parent Center/Baby Center

1. Explain why a good education is important.
2. Create and describe a simple plan to address child’s educational needs (e.g., pre-school and kindergarten).
3. Describe how child is doing in school or day care.
4. Help child with homework and projects (when applicable).
5. Get child to school or day care on time.

Activities:

PAYA    Module 5: Chidlren Ages 2 Through 5 - Educational Needs

What To Expect    Toddler - Preschool

Web Resources    Bright Futures: Preparing Your Child For School    Parents Magazine    Parent Soup    The Parent Center/Baby Center

1. Describe our inter-dependence on our larger environment.
2. Describe how environmental issues impact you and your child directly (e.g., water quality).
3. Describe why recycling is important.
4. Name four ways to keep the environment clean.
5. Demonstrate teaching your child to be environmentally conscious in at least three ways (e.g., recycle, turning out lights, not littering).
6. Describe why it is important to conserve energy.
7. Demonstrate two ways to conserve energy (e.g., using cold not hot water to wash clothes, turning out lights).

Activities:

PAYA    Module 5: Making the World a Better Place    Module 5: Making the World a Better Place - Our Environment

What To Expect    Toddler - Caring About the Earth

Web Resource    Recycling: Recycling Games, Facts and Educational Activities