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Your child will learn to invite you to look at something when you interpret their glance as an invitation to pay attention to what they are holding or looking at.

Today's activity: Act interested and animated when your child shows you something. Shape your child’s “showing” action by interpreting their glance at you as an invitation to pay attention to what they are holding.

Use these charts as a checklist for your child's progress.

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