This CuddleBright® Parenting Guide offers you child- development information to help you and your child get off to a healthy start. This knowledge, coupled with your care and love, will support your child’s ability to adapt to challenges and be ready to learn. Some of the valuable things you’ll learn include:

• How to develop consistent routines and rituals with your child, starting at birth, by using our simple four- step feedback loop.

• Hello and bye-bye routines and rituals—designed specifically for use with the Lovie, the Heart, and the Storybook—to help ease separations.

• Parenting tips, activities, and examples on a variety of key topics, including attachment, tantrums, and praise.

You don’t have to read it all at once. One section a night, or even one section a week, will make a difference. As your child grows into a toddler and then a preschooler, you might want to reread this guide.

Remember, parenting is a creative process. There are no fixed formulas. You should use the concepts in this guide as a model to help shape your own parenting style. The goal is to foster resilience in your child so that he can adapt in this ever-changing world.