Provide Emotional Security

• Talk and act so that children feel safe and comfortable expressing themselves
• Be gentle
• Be dependable

• Provide food, shelter, clothing
• Teach personal hygiene nutrition
• Monitor safety
• Maintain a family routine
• Attend to wounds

• Be consistent
• Ensure rules are appropriate to age developmetn of child
• Be clear about limits expectations
• Use discipline to give instruction, not punish

• Participate in your children's lives: activities, school, sports, special events days, celebrations, friends
• Include your children in your activities
• Reveal who you are to your children

• Be affirming
• Encourage children to follow their interests
• Let children disagree with you
• Recognize improvement
• Teach new skills
• Let them make mistakes

• Express verbal physical affection
• Be affectionate when you children are physically or emotionally hurt

• Give yourself personal time
• Keep yourself healthy
• Maintain friendships
• Accept love

• Acknowledge children's right to have own feelings, friends, activities opinions
• Promote independence
• Allow for privacy
• Respect Feelings for other parent
• Believe you children.