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| Resource Name | Description | Resource Type |
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| Part 2: Supporting Infants and Toddlers through Extended Separations and Reunions | In this second part of our discussion, former CICC Coaching Manager, author, and Early Childhood Advocate Beth Menninga returns to share insights on extended separations and reunions with infants and toddlers. We discuss military deployment, divorce/break up or split households, work travel, incarceration, foster care, hospitalization, immigration related separations, teacher leaves, and change of classroom or care setting. | Podcast |
| Part 2: Supporting Quality Play Relationships-Preschoolers | Join in our second part of a discussion on the importance of play with Dr. Sue Starks, Professor of Education and Chair of Early Childhood at Concordia University St. Paul. We discuss the fact that play is a developmental need and that all children show us what they need through play. Quality play is encouraged through the supports, prompts, activities, and experiences that we provide in the early childhood setting. Listen as Dr. Starks encourages us all to play! | Podcast |
| Pets in the Family Child Care Setting | Guidelines, precautions, and tips for providers with pets in the FCC to ensure all children, adults, and animals are healthy and safe. | Tipsheet |
| Play in Early Childhood: The Role of Play in Any Setting | In this video from the Center of the Developing Child at Harvard University, "learn more about how play can foster children’s resilience to hardship, and how the complex interactions involved when children play help build their brains." | |
| Play--Play Skills are Developmental Too: Part One | In this podcast, we look at children’s development from infant stages through older preschool to explore what types of play children should typically be engaged in at different ages. Play is both developmental and learned so children need our help in acquiring skills that help them move from stage to stage. We will set the foundation for talking about some of the challenges children may face in their play. | Podcast |
| Playing Helps Children Learn and Grow | When infants are playing with objects, their early attempts to pay attention to things are accompanied by bursts of high-frequency activity in their brain. But what happens when parents play together with them? Research summarized in this column from the National Institutes for Health shows that when adults are engaged in joint play together with their infant, their own brains show similar bursts of high-frequency activity. Learn more about this research and about ways to playfully support both children and adults. | Document |
| Playing Helps Children Learn and Grow | When infants are playing with objects, their early attempts to pay attention to things are accompanied by bursts of high-frequency activity in their brain. But what happens when parents play together with them? Research summarized in this column from the National Institutes for Health shows that when adults are engaged in joint play together with their infant, their own brains show similar bursts of high-frequency activity. Learn more about this research and about ways to playfully support both children and adults. This resource is available in Spanish. | Document |
| Playing it Safe: Selecting Toys for Children | The safety and durability of toys is one of the most important considerations when making toy selections for children. Find out more about selecting toys that are safe for young children. | Info Module |
| Potty Training: Learning to the Use the Toilet | "There is not one right way or one right age to learn how to use the toilet. Here are some questions and thoughts from Zero to Three to keep in mind as you help your child learn to use the toilet." | Document |
| Potty Training: Learning to Use the Toilet | Tips, skills, and strategies for successful toilet training. | Tipsheet |
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