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8 Inspirational Quotes about Adult-Child Relationships
The most important thing adults can do for children is to provide them with a warm, caring relationship. Be their attachment figure, the special person they can turn to with trust that their needs will be met. Whatever role you ...
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15 positive guidance strategies that work – and teach!
Here are 15 tried and true positive guidance strategies that have been used successfully for decades and are still relevant today. These “Guides to Speech and Action” were developed by Katherine Read Baker over 70 years ago. She wanted adults who work with ...
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An Alphabet of Marvelous Movement Activities for kids!
Watching the 2020 Olympics, I was inspired to postpone my planned guidance post so I could share some ideas for promoting active physical play for preschoolers. Have you been watching the amazing feats of the Olympic athletes? It’s incredible what ...
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The Power of Positive Guidance – It’s Within You!
What is the most challenging part of your job as an early childhood educator? If you are a teacher of toddlers or preschoolers, chances are the answer is managing their behavior. You may feel like you could spend more time ...
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5 Playful practices that Support Language and Literacy for Infants and Toddlers
Playing with Infants and toddlers is the best way for us to support all their learning and development, including language. Through play, young children are learning how to communicate. They learn how the world works. They learn to put their thoughts ...
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How Language Develops in the First 5 Years – and how you can help
During the preschool years, children’s language is developing most rapidly, especially from birth to age three. Children are learning to understand language (receptive language) and to use language to communicate (expressive language). Children’s language abilities affect their learning and development ...
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4 Social Skills children learn from Play – and how you can help
Play is vital for children for many reasons. It supports all areas of development, building their language and thinking skills, contributing to physical health and development, and helping them learn about themselves and one another. Play is the most powerful ...
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How Playing with your Children Strengthens your Relationships – and Why That Is So Important
Playing with your children is good for their developing brains, even when we aren’t trying to teach them anything. Research shows that close relationships with caring adults are the most important thing affecting children’s healthy brain development! Relationships actually shape the brain’s ...
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Adults Need Play, Too! The 8 adult play personalities
As adults who care for or teach children, we recognize the value of play for young children: It is the most natural and effective way for them to learn about the world, themselves and others. We may not realize that ...
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11 Connecting Games that Build Self-Regulation
Would you like to build children’s self-regulation skills while strengthening your relationship and having fun? Check out these games! First, here’s a little info about self-regulation: Self-regulation is a complex process that allows children to appropriately respond to their environment. ...
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