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The Ordinary “Magic” of Resilience

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Promoting Resilience in Young Children through Supportive, Caring Practices

Relationships are the active ingredients in healthy human development. At their best, they promote competence and well-being, individualized responsiveness, mutual action-and-interaction, and an emotional connection to another human being--be it parent, peer, grandparent, aunt, uncle, neighbor, teacher, coach, or any other person who has an important effect on the child’s early development.
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Related Book: Socially Strong, Emotionally Secure
Gracing Your Children with Gratitude

Teaching your child to be thankful can be harder than you think. After all, we can't force our children to be grateful. What we can do, however, is set an example. Many children tend to model behavior seen around them. There are several simple practices you can involve your family in that will instill values like gratitude and charity into your child's every day life.
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Related Book: What Do You Stand For? For Teens
Books to Kickstart Kindergarten Readiness for the Upcoming Year

The summer before your child goes to Kindergarten is often filled with excitement, anticipation, and wonder at whether your child will be ready to start their "formal" education. Early childhood experts agree that one of the best ways to learn and prepare your children for school is through play. During play, children are problem-solving and interacting, meaning they are gaining important communication and social-emotional skills. These are the skills that will allow them integrate into a new school environment, and continue to learn and grow! Check out the list of books below to help parents—and help teachers help parents—get children playing in meaningful ways that will support their development and school-readiness.
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Pushing Past Challenging Behaviors in the Classroom

When teachers face challenging behaviors and emotions in the classroom, it is important for them to check in with themselves as they seek to guide children in the best way possible. You can't have calm, regulated children without calm, regulated adults! Angela Searcy, EdD—former neurodevelopment specialist with more than 25 years of experience in education and author of Push Past It! A Positive Approach to Challenging Classroom Behaviors—shares her strategy for teachers to calm themselves, then their children, and push past challenging behaviors and disruptions in the classroom.
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How to Be An Emotion Detector for Infants and Toddlers

Just like older humans, infants and toddlers have complex emotional worlds. Unlike older humans, infants and toddlers do not yet have the language or vocabulary to express those emotional worlds. Instead they express their emotions through facial expressions, sounds, and body postures. Dr. Donna Wittmer—co-author of Crying and Laughing: The Emotional Development of Infants and Toddlers and From Biting to Hugging: Understanding Social Development in Infants and Toddlers—explains how to be an emotion detector for infants and toddlers and help them develop emotional competence, the bedrock for their present and future success.
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Related Book: Crying and Laughing
Books for Supporting Cognitive, Social, and Emotional Development in Infants, Toddlers, and Twos

If the timing is right, the learning that occurs in the earliest years of life can be a gold mine, promoting valuable cognitive, social, and emotional development that will last a lifetime. This collection of books provides the support and knowledge you will need for understanding and aiding the development of infants, toddlers, and two-year-olds, from learning the science behind how children develop cognitively and social-emotionally to research-based activities and strategies to help children gain and reinforce the skills needed to reach developmental milestones.
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School Reopening: Addressing Behavioral Challenges by Updating School-Wide Discipline Policies

Students' well-being is an urgent priority for every school reopening after the pandemic. Behavioral challenges are expected to rise as students return to school having experienced multiple stressors from the past year. Rather than returning to the way things were, Sascha Longstreth, PhD and Sarah Garrity, PhD, co-authors of Effective Discipline Policies: How to Create a System that Supports Young Children's Social-Emotional Competence, suggest rethinking how we approach students' behavior and creating high-quality school behavior policies.
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Related Book: Effective Discipline Policies
Helping our Littlest Victims: Children Exposed to Trauma in the Pandemic

Barbara Sorrels, EdD, author of Reaching and Teaching Children Exposed to Trauma, discusses the challenges ahead in the new school year and offers how to help our littlest victims in the wake of COVID-19.
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Related Book: Reaching and Teaching Children Exposed to Trauma
The Power of Stories

While early childhood educators often use books to teach the concepts of print or to point out rhyming words, Barbara Sorrels, EdD, author of Reaching and Teaching Children Exposed to Trauma explains how good children’s literature plays an important role in a healing environment for children.
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Related Book: Reaching and Teaching Children Exposed to Trauma

Experts describe how to assess the social-emotional development and self regulation among infants, toddlers and preschoolers. Strategies include self-regulation tips and modeling pro-social skills for young children.

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