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Helene Rothschild has these to offer:

http://www.morganhillpreschool.com/asigrow.html
http://poetrypoem.com/cgi-bin/index....=t&item=poetry
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Rothschild2.html

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I really appreaciated the links, especially the first one that was coming from a "childs" point of view.
I found it amazing that everything listed appeared to be so "common sence" yet so crucial to a childs healthy development.
In all honesty I spent allot of time thinking about these things and questioned how I was doing on the "healthy parenting scale". For some reason they made me very sad.
I discovered something so basic and flawed in my parenting abilities it really hurt. I never tell my son I love him. It isn't that I dont love him, because I do with all my heart. It's just that he is so young, barely speaks, the concept of telling him how much he means to me, how very special he is or, or how much I love him just didn't occur to me as he is so young. I realized children just don't "know" things. He wont wake up in a a few years at 5 and know mommy loves him. I must tell him, he needs to know, it needs to start at a young age, not just when I think he can understand the concept of the words. If I don't start now how will he ever learn or know his true value in my heart.
It's certainly important and was a real wake up call.