"The outdoor environment is now an integral part of many early years settings and schools, but is it being used to its full potential? Providing extensive, challenging and ever-changing outdoor play experiences is an essential and valuable aspect of early years education. This book offers comprehensive guidance on how the outdoor environment can be used to teach and challenge all children across a range of settings drawing on forest school practice....

"What should we do to improve the lives of children growing up in adversity? From the best-selling author of How children succeed, a handbook to guide readers through the new science of success." -- From dust jacket.

Overview: There's more than one way to be smart! This award-winning curriculum for three- to six-year-olds offers a complete plan for every learning style. Revised and updated, the new edition of this classic bestseller is full of new activities based on the latest research about how children learn. Each activity now includes a Morning Message and Home Connections, and many of the original activities have been updated to include ideas for outdoor...

The first feature documentary to explore the most overlooked, underestimated, and powerful force for good in America today: early childhood education. Through poignant stories and surprising humor, the film lays out the overwhelming evidence for the importance of the first five years and reveals how the failure to act on that evidence has resulted in an everyday crisis for American families, and a slow-motion catastrophe for the country.

"Why do some children succeed while others fail? The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: success comes to those who score highest on tests, from preschool admissions to SATs. But in this book the author argues that the qualities that matter most have more to do with character: skills like perseverance, curiosity, conscientiousness, optimism, and self-control. The book introduces us to a new generation...

Providing parents, caregivers and child care providers with information to help young children develop social, emotional and cognitive skills. Topics include conflict resolution, tantrums, separation anxiety and sharing.

It can seem like your baby needs so much gear and so many toys! But when it comes to their health and development, less is more. In Retro Baby, pediatric occupational therapist and child development specialist Anne H. Zachry, PhD, OTR/L, shows you how bouncers, swings, and other baby holders, as well as electronic toys and screen time, can hinder your baby's development and delay milestones. Retro Baby will help you cultivate a back-to-basics parenting...

Los niños aprenden cosas divertidas y educativas que pueden hacer con sus manos: jugar, aplaudir, construir, ayudar y mantenerse seguros. Aprenden también alternativas para no pegar: dibujar, saltar, hablar de los sentimientos y muchas otras. This colorfully illlustrated story teaches children that there are alternative things to do with their hands besides hitting when they are feeling angry. Includes activities.