This is a big important rule.

NO SURPRISES!

No surprise materials, no surprise demands, no surprise questions.

Unfamiliar demands are upsetting.

They are hard, different, and scary.

Don’t spring something new on me.

Introduce new things to me with NO demand!

Let me get used to it slowly.

Here are some tag points for introducing a new task:

• Child looks at object
• Child touches object
• When you bring out something new, just let me look at it, touch it, and get used to it.