he authors of "Getting Ready Strategies for Promoting Parent-Professional Relationships and Parent-Child Interactions" have built on the set of evidence-based Getting Ready practices delineated by Sheridan et al. (2008) by translating them into an informative article that highlights daily opportunities to implement those practices. On page 3 of the article, they remind us that Division for Early Childhood of the Council for Exceptional Children's (DEC) recommended practices explicitly focus on interactions and encourage early childhood professionals to support family members in "learning sensitive and responsive ways to interact with the child and promote the child's development" (DEC, 2014, p. 14). Read on to discover some additional ways in which to apply the sensitive and responsive ideas from this article into your daily interactions.
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