Rahima Baldwin Dancy's practical, down-to-earth advice will help parents to: understand their child's different intellectual, mental and physical needs at each stage of development, nourish their child's imagination with simple home-made toys and materials from the garden and kitchen cupboard, enjoy storytelling, arts, crafts and musical activities with their child, create their own family rituals to ease the daily routine, use imitation, repetition and setting limits to promote positive discipline, and value their own ability to understand and care for their child.