ECHO July 2019 Issue 1 | Page 3

There are tremendous benefits to your child’s cognitive and language growth, as well as their social emotional intelligence, when you take the time to sit them in your lap and read aloud every day. Here is a pick from our bookshelf on feelings, "I'm Sorry" by Mercer Mayer.

All of us benefit when we can learn from characters we identify with in literature and isn’t it helpful to know what to do with our feelings? Naming them and processing them is critical to your child’s development in these early years.

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