1-year-old parenting montana tools by Center for Health and Safety Culture
Last Updated: November 1, 2025
You have already been a parent or in a parenting role for one year! The experiences your one-year-old shares with you are essential for developing a healthy brain, growing curiosity skills, learning about language and emotions, and strengthening their relationship with you. For parents and those in a parenting role, now is the right time to continue building a healthy parent-child relationship with your one-year-old. There are many small things you can do right now to make a difference in your child’s healthy growth. The process and tools presented in this podcast from ParentingMontana.org will enable you to help your child continue to thrive. You will learn ways to strengthen communication, build your relationship, and develop social and emotional skills. The Montana Department of Health and Human Services partnered with the Center for Health and Safety Culture at Montana State University to create ParentingMontana.org. The tools shared in this podcast from ParentingMontana.org pro
Routines for Your 1-Year-Old
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Montana parents can establish routines that provide structure and repetition to make your one-year-old's world easier to understand.
Resilience for Your 1-Year-Old
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We all face challenges to being resilient. This five-step Montana parenting process helps you and your one-year-old child grow resilience together.
Reading for Your 1-Year-Old
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As a Montana parent, reading with your one-year-old child can build the foundation for a love of learning that will encourage your child's curiosity.
Listening for Your 1-Year-Old
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Using a five-step parenting process, Montana parents can help their child, age 1, build listening skills and create greater opportunities for connection.
Kindness for Your 1-Year-Old
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As a Montana parent or someone in a parenting role, focusing on kindness with your one-year-old will lay a critical foundation of trusting interactions.
Happiness for Your 1-Year-Old
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Learn five steps for growing happiness. As a Montana parent you can create empathetic interactions that promote happiness for your one-year-old.
Guidance and Discipline for Skill Building for Your 1-Year-Old
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Guidance and discipline for skill building for a one-year-old is not appropriate at this age; instead check out these Montana parenting tips.
Empathy for Your 1-Year-Old
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Montana parents can grow empathy in their one-year-old child which will support them as they work to develop healthy relationships.
Eating for Your 1-Year-Old
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Does your one-year-old child refuse to try new foods? These steps for Montana parents include specific strategies to help build healthy eating habits.
Confidence for Your 1-Year-Old
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As a parent you can build a sense of confidence in your 1 (one)-year-old with these tips for Montana families. Confidence can create trust in each other.
