Language Development: How to Teach Your Child to Calm Down on Their Own
Some children find it impossible to calm down without a serious investment in time, effort, and a few
heartfelt prayers.
If your child is one of them, you’ve probably already tried...
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Language Development: How to Teach Your Child to Calm Down on Their Own
Some children find it impossible to calm down without a serious investment in time, effort, and a few
heartfelt prayers.
If your child is one of them, you’ve probably already tried “crying it out,” with the
perhaps expected result: one wide-awake child, accompanied by a parent that wishes they had decided
to join a convent (or a monastery) at the precocious age of ten.
Children with delayed language development often find it difficult to calm down by themselves.
Dolls,
stuffed animals, blankets, and other traditional loveys are viewed as passé, and thus they end up
needing their parents’ help in order to get out of the hysteric mode.
One of the reasons for this is that children with delayed language development have trouble with
pretend play.
Imaginary play is all about symbols: the use of one thing in order to represent another.
So
when your child feeds his favorite stuffed bear, he’s calling upon all the ex
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