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Practitioners can make emotional security and social co-operation a matter of routine in their daily work with babies and toddlers, writes Jennie Lindon The emotional wellbeing of babies and toddlers depends on feeling that they are noticed and appreciated as individuals. Caring adults help very young children to feel emotionally secure and actively engaged through two broad kinds of routine:

The emotional wellbeing of babies and toddlers depends on feeling that they are noticed and appreciated as individuals. Caring adults help very young children to feel emotionally secure and actively engaged through two broad kinds of routine:

* The personal care routines for a baby, toddler or young child are an important way to show affectionate and respectful practice. You do all the care for a young baby, but very soon, older babies and toddlers start to share in their own care. Their skills of self- reliance start to build.

* When you allow and encourage young children to help out within the regular domestic routines, they learn a wide range of physical and cognitive skills. But they also gain emotionally by feeling like an active working member of your home as a childminder or within the nursery.

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