As a parent, you are their primary and most important teacher. You have to teach these skills over and over, practice them with your child constantly and make sure he or she is both old enough and developmentally ready to learn them. And teaching involves more than just telling a child what to do – it also means demonstrating and modeling the skills until the child knows how, when, where and why to use them.

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