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Introduction - Idaho is unquestionably the best place on earth to live, work, play and raise our families.
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Licensing - minimum health and safety requirements for child care businesses help parents ensure good environments when away from home.
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The Earliest Years are Clearly the Most Important - children are learning every minute of every day and by the age of 3, 80% of all brain development has already occurred.
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Children Need a Healthy & Safe Environment - access to medical home/care, health and safety standards, environmental policies that reduce toxins in the environment protect children's brain development.
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Children Need Good Nutrition - holding during feedings, skin-to-skin contact and talking to your baby will help build the natural bonds that are essential to healthy relationships.
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Children Need a Confident Parent with Good Parenting Skills - mom and dad and specially educated caregivers who support both parents and children are needed. Bonding is very important for emotional development and this can be something as simple as playing with your child or reading to your child to build the relationship
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Children Need a Stimulating Enironment - reading and talking with children while using books, pictures, and drama will enhance everyday learning opportunities.
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IdahoSTARS - many resources available to enhance child care settings, building that important extended family relationship and including parents in their children's learning.
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And How Are The Children? - children are learning every minute of every day and to the extent to which we enrich that process, we will strengthen our own families, preserve what is most important to us, build our future prosperity.
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