OverviewYou Make the Difference is a short, easy-to-read guidebook that helps parents build the best possible foundations for their child’s early learning. The book focuses on families’ everyday lives – the interactions and activities they already do together – to help parents connect with their child, have more fun together and support their child’s learning.
What Parents Learn
You Make the Difference gives parents practical, research-based strategies for:
“Tuning in” to their child’s interests and communication.
Building their child’s confidence to communicate.
Responding to their child’s messages in ways that foster positive interactions, a stronger parent-child relationship, and enhanced language learning.
Highlights
Short, digestible and simply written.
Easy-to-use strategies for supporting children’s learning during everyday activities.
Illustrated examples of parents using the strategies during everyday interactions.
Benefits for Parents and ProfessionalsFor Parents
As a parent, you are the most important teacher in your child’s life. You not only help your child learn skills like language and literacy, but you also lay the essential foundation for your child’s best learning by building their confidence, interest and enjoyment in communicating.The You Make the Difference guidebook shows you simple ways to make the most of the everyday activities you already do with your child – having dinner, taking a bath, reading a book – to encourage and support your child’s confidence and communication. By making small, but powerful changes to the way you interact with your child, you help your child feel good about themselves and feel open to learning new things.For Professionals If you’re a professional who supports families of young children, You Make the Difference can be a beneficial addition to your professional toolkit. You can use the guidebook to:
Help parents understand the critical role they play in setting the stage for their child’s best learning.
Support parents to be more attuned to their child’s communication, and respond in ways that foster positive interactions and encourage language-learning.
Provide parents who are second-language learners with a short, easy-to-read resource for supporting their child’s learning.
