More from my younger SIL's Health Nurse Book (born in the 80's):

(From "THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN" by Mia Pringle)

1. Give continuous, consistant, loving care - It's essential for the mind's health as food is for the body.

2. Give generously of your time and understanding = playing with and reading to your child matters more than a tidy, smooth-running home.

3. Provide new experiences and bathe your child in language from birth onwards - they enrich her growing mind.

4. Encourage her to play in every way both by herself and with other children -exploring, imitating, constructing, pretending and creating.

5. Give her more praise for effort than for achievement.

6. Give ever-increasing responsibility - like all skills, it needs to be practised.

7. Remember that every child is unique - so suitable handling for one may not be right for another.

8. Make the way you show disapproval fit your child's temperament, age and understanding.

9. Never threaten you will stop loving her or give her away; you may reject her behaviour but never suggest that you might reject her.

10. Don't expect gratitude; your child did not ask to be born - the choice was yours.
I got quite teary reading these ones...

*hugs*
Cailin