How to Create an Ideal Environment for ECD

Stable, caring, interactive relationships with adults - any way or any place they can be provided - will benefit healthy brain development of young children.

The brain develops most rapidly in the first few years of a child's life; over 80% of the child's brain is formed by the age of 3.

How can you create beneficial relationships with children to help them develop healthy brains?

• Spend time with them
• Speak to them lovingly
• Correct them without corporal punishment
• Pay attention to them
• Play with them
• Praise their positive behaviors
• Encourage them