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Empowering Parents Through Family Centred Intervention
(Notice that the TV is OFF! That helps him to listen and think. When the TV is on, people talk less in families, and little children's brains only grow when real people listen and talk to them.)
Pictures and text on this page from our book "In the Family" by Sibylle Janert, illustrated by Claudia Schenk
When his mum then writes 'school-bag' on a paper-bag for him, so that he can pretend to go to school and be big like his brother and sister, he is happy again, because he feels that she understood his feelings and helped him to think about them.
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