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Our Resource Library contains materials and assistance for early childhood educators and those they serve. Explore our selection of podcasts, tip sheets, websites, documents, and self-study courses.
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Effective Discipline to Raise Healthy Children | Corporal punishment – or the use of spanking as a disciplinary tool –increases aggression in young children in the long run and is ineffective in teaching a child responsibility and self-control. In fact, new evidence suggests that it may cause harm to the child by affecting normal brain development. Other methods that teach children right from wrong are safer and more effective. This article is from Robert D. Sege, Benjamin S. Siegel, Council on Child Abuse and Neglect and the Committee on Psychosocial Aspects of Child and Family Health. | Document |
Elementos esenciales de los entornos para infantes y niños pequeños: # 3 Exploración y respeto iniciados por el niño (Essential Elements of Infant &Toddler Environments: #3 Child-Initiated Exploration and Respect) | El tercero de una serie de seis elementos esenciales en el diseño de ambientes para infantes y niños pequeños. The third in a series of six essential elements in designing environments for infants and toddlers. | Tipsheet |
Emergency Preparedness Tip Sheets | Use these tip sheets with Head Start and Early Head Start families and staff affected by a crisis or tragic event. Learn to focus on children's responses to these events, as well as ways to help them cope. | Website |
Emotional Literacy: Using Feeling Faces | "The Feeling Faces assist children with understanding their feelings and the feelings of others. It is important to teach children words to use to express feelings in replace of the use of challenging behavior. The feeling posters can be used in a variety of ways to help children learn social emotional skills around use of emotional literacy and vocabulary." -National Center for Pyramid Model Innovations (NCPMI) | Document |
Emotional Sensitivity | Emotional sensitivity is the ease or difficulty with which a child responds emotionally to situations. Some children are very sensitive to what is going around them while others seem oblivious to the feelings or mood of peers. How can we help children learn empathetic skills and also learn about their own feelings and how to express themselves to others? This podcast will look at children’s sensitivity levels and how we as professionals can guide them in their relationships with others. | Podcast |
Encouragement and Effective Praise: Part One | In the first part of a two-part series on praise and effective encouragement for young children, Cindy Croft and Priscilla Weigel will examine why it is important to use words that encourage a sense of accomplishment and competence in children. Why do we praise children? What makes for effective interchanges? Please listen for tips and tools for talking with your children. | Podcast |
Encouragement and Effective Praise: Part Two | Encouragement and Effective Praise (Part 2): Priscilla and Cindy take the message of Part 1 on why we praise children and broaden the discussion with specific examples of effective encouragement. How do we respond to children in ways that help them feel successful and competent? Why is this important to their social emotional development? Tune in to hear more. | Podcast |
Encouraging the Development of Self-Regulation Skills | Self-regulation is the ability to regulate with consistency a person’s emotions, reactions, and feelings. Developing self-regulation is a cornerstone of positive mental health and social competency. | Tipsheet |
Engaging with Families | This tip sheet was adapted from the NAEYC article, The 5 Rs for Promoting Positive Family Engagement. Learn how following the Five Rs - Respect, Reassurance and Responsiveness, Relationship, Reciprocity, and Reflection will allow family engagement to begin growing as quickly as the children in your classroom. | Tipsheet |
Equity Resources | The Center of Excellence for Infant and early Childhood Mental Health created a set of equity resources that includes webinars and a learning module. | Website |
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