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Understanding Your Child's Development

Helping your child grow

We know more now about early childhood development than ever before. The new knowledge about brain development, in particular, points to the importance of the early years.

MFN offers resources that can help you stay up-to-date on research findings and learn easy ways to incorporate important attitudes and activities into your everyday interactions with your child.

Tips for Working Parents is available as a PDF (portable document format) file which can be viewed and/or printed out if you have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. Acrobat Reader is available free from Adobe Systems . Instructions for the installation and use of Acrobat are available at the Adobe Systems site. To read or download Tips for Working Parents , click here.