Primary Care-based Program to Enhance Positive Parenting Practices

Sit Down and Play (SDP) is designed to be a brief, low-cost intervention that incorporates key theoretical constructs to elicit positive parenting behaviors. It is intended to be delivered by existing clinical staff, nonprofessionals, or volunteers during each of the eight well-child visits between 2-24 months of age while a family waits to be seen by their pediatrician in the examination room.

Handouts developed by Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to provide information regarding age-specific early childhood milestones