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Children Do Well If They Can
One of the most amazing and
gratifying things about being a parent is watching your
child develop new skills and master increasingly complex
tasks with each passing month and year. Crawling pro-
gresses to walking and then advances to running; bab-
bling slowly develops into full-blown talking; smiling
progresses to more sophisticated forms of socialization;
learning the letters of the alphabet sets the stage for
reading whole words and then sentences, paragraphs,
and books.
It is also amazing how unevenly different children’s
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