Make the Connection Resources

Welcome to the Make the Connection parenting program!

This program will help you strengthen your loving connections with your child right from the first year. Your relationship with your child in the first 3 years will lay down a strong foundation in the baby’s brain for how they will build future relationships. A healthy relationship is the best gift you can give your child.

On this page, you will find videos, songs & rhymes, and resources to help you build a secure and strong relationship with your child.

Videos to help make connections

Videos about LOVE

Tronick’s still face experiment

Listening to baby

The first years last forever

Tuning into toddlers

Developing attachment: Comforting your baby

Being with and shark music

How to develop good attachment with your build – Attachment parenting

10 Things your baby wants you to know

Related links

Videos about LANGUAGE

Adorable moment of father and toddler having conversation

Motherese sample

Language development, two months: Motherese, cooing, smiling, turn-taking, eye contact

Developmental milestones: Baby talk from first sounds to first words

https://youtu.be/a7WAfwKi88Q?si=In7Qw0hwQ-wo9Ckn

Learning language while we play

Read, Speak, Sing: Your baby and early literacy

Read, Speak, Sing: Fun ideas for you and your baby

Related links

Videos about LEARNING

Power of play – Zero to three magic of everyday moments

Additional resources

Play or download songs and rhymes

Songs and rhymes for ages 0-1

A Smooth RoadDownload
Changing DiapersDownload
Humpty DumptyDownload
Kissy Kissy FingersDownload
Let’s Take A WalkDownload
Lullaby And GoodnightDownload
My Grandfather’s Clock 2Download
Oh Here We Are TogetherDownload
Round And Round The GardenDownload
She Didn’t DanceDownload
Slice SliceDownload
The Moon Is RoundDownload
This Is The Way We Wash Our HandsDownload
Where Is Thumbskin?Download
You Are SpecialDownload
Zoom Zoom ZoomDownload
Bye Bye BabyDownload
Here We Go To Granma’sDownload
I Love Your ToesDownload
Knock On The DoorDownload
Love My BabyDownload
My Gradfather’s ClockDownload
My Toes, My KneesDownload
Playtime Is OverDownload
Shake It Baby Shake ItDownload
SkinnamarinkDownload
Swing Me Over The OceanDownload
These Are (Baby’s Name) FingersDownload
This Is The Way We Wash Our HandsDownload
You Are My Beautiful BabyDownload
You Rock And Rock And You Rock And You StopDownload

Songs and rhymes for ages 1-2

Acka Backa Soda CrackerDownload
Criss Cross ApplesauceDownload
Eensy Weensy SpiderDownload
Floating BubblesDownload
Here’s a Nest For BluebirdDownload
I’m Here Whenever You Need MeDownload
Love My ToddlerDownload
Mother and Father and Uncle JohnDownload
One Potato, Two PotatoDownload
Roll the BallDownload
Sleeping BunniesDownload
What Shall We Do With A Silly ToddlerDownload
Clap Clap Clap Clap Our HandsDownload
Donkey RidingDownload
Fingers in the AirDownload
Here’s a CupDownload
Humpty DumptyDownload
Let’s Go WalkingDownload
Mama’s Little BabyDownload
My Little KittyDownload
Pace Goes the LadyDownload
Sleeping BunniesDownload
Three Little MonkeysDownload
You Are My SunshineDownload

Printable resources to help make connections

Resources about LOVE

7 Essential Parenting StrategiesDownload
10 Things your Baby wants you to knowDownload
10 Things your Toddler wants you to knowDownload
Full Circle of SecurityDownload
Lyric Sheet for “Love my Baby”Download
My Child and I Attachment for LifeDownload
Security 25 words or lessDownload

Resources about LANGUAGE

Encouraging Literacy in Your Child – Nobody’s PerfectDownload

Resources about LEARNING

Activities for 6 to 18 month oldsDownload
Hands-on Dad bookletDownload
Building Resilience in Young ChildrenDownload
Daddy and Me on the MoveDownload

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Last modified: 6 June 2024