Podcast

En este episodio, Karina Pliego, CICC Support, da la bienvenida a Ronan Hernandez-Pratt para hablar sobre la importancia de preparar a los niños cuando llega un nuevo miembro a la familia. Escuche las estrategias y el apoyo que podemos brindar para facilitar esta transición importante.

Our guest, Public Health Nurse Sarah Hawley from Minnesota Child Care Health Consultants, joins Inclusion Matters for another episode, this time focusing on safe and healthy naptime routines, policies, and practices.  Sleep is essential for overall good health of the child and the whole family.  Listen and gain resources and tools to support quality sleep for young children while in child care.

In this second episode of this two-part series on outdoor play and extending the classroom outside, Brenda Lowe and Dana Ellingson take a deeper dive into the benefits of outdoor play. They discuss the Early Childhood Educator's role in playing outside and also more intentional opportunities utilizing common outdoor and classroom materials that can extend the learning experience that engage children and ignite their natural curiosity.

Part 5 of our series on attachment continues the conversation on helping children cope with separation, and explores the use of transitional objects as supports.

During Part 4 of our series on attachment, Dr. Mary Harrison shifts the focus of our conversation to the topic of separation, and ways early childhood educators promote parent child relationships during arrivals and departures.

Part 3 of our series on attachment continues the conversation about responsive caregiving practices, with a focus on the importance of providing a secure base for infants and toddlers as they begin to explore the world.