Winner of the 2015 Mom'c Choice Gold Award, the 2015 National Parenting Publications Bronze Award, and the 2015 National Parenting Center's Seal of Approval! 
Who's the expert on your child? You are! But, what if you need validation? What if you need support? What if you have questions? As a parent, you may assume others have it all figured out- that there is some kind of magic decoder ring or secret handshake that will give you the key to parenting. But, if each child is unique, how can there be a one-size-fits-all guide to parenting? Although no one has it all figured out, Parents Ask, Experts Answer empowers you by offering caring, informed responses from a variety of trusted professionals. By presenting multiple solutions to each challenge, Parents Ask, Experts Answer helps you see that there may be several right answers to a problem. You will be empowered to choose a realistic solution that is right for your family.

Parents Ask, Experts Answer: Nurturing Happy, Healthy Children

Parenting & Relationships

Tina Nocera

Parenting

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Recommends projects designed to teach young children about air, animals, plants, water, the senses, and the environment

Bubbles, Rainbows And Worms: Science Experiments For Pre-School Children

Sam Ed Brown

Science & Math

The only source book you'll need to face those really difficult issues in the classroom. Learn effective strategies for addressing the most challenging problems you may encounter as a teacher, such as the death of a family member, domestic violence, substance abuse, sex abuse, homelessness, natural disasters and children with HIV/AIDS. Chapters for each crisis include describing the problem, insights from child development, when to seek help, how to respond, and suggestions of organizations and individuals you can turn to for help.

The Crisis Manual for Early Childhood Teachers: How to Handle the Really Difficult Problems

Miller, Karen

Reference

Another Encyclopedia of Theme Activities for Young Children: Over 300 Favorite Activities Created by Teachers

Let's Take It Outside!: Teacher-Created Activities for Outdoor Learning

Children love outdoor play. Now teachers can combine the magic and excitement of the outdoors with activities that encourage and support learning! With more than one hundred new teacher-created, classroom-tested outdoor activities, Let's Take It Outside! engages children's minds and bodies as they explore the limitless bounds of the outdoors while also building key skills in areas like math, literacy and language, science, art, and music. Perfect for ages three to six, the activities in Let's Take It Outside! take kids on an outdoor adventure as they make mud-dough letters, go on a rainbow scavenger hunt, and play animal charades. Let's Take It Outside! is the result of a nationwide contest among teachers. The best of the best activities are selected and organized by theme for easy use. Themes include counting, alphabet, colors, shapes, art, touch, sound and sight, plants and gardening, bubbles and air, light and shadow, animals and insects, dramatic play, and large motor skills.

Winner of the 2015 Mom's Choice Gold Award, the 2015 National Parenting Publications Gold Award, and the 2014 National Parenting Center's Seal of Approval! 
Combining fun, easy-to-do activities with research based tips and developmental overviews, Raising a Talker naturally transforms play sessions into meaningful language-learning experiences. Little tweaks and easy changes in the everyday play create memorable learning experiences where communication and discovery can flourish.

Raising a Talker: Easy Activities for Birth to Age 3

Renate Zangl

The children in today's early childhood classroom are more culturally, linguistically, and ability diverse than ever. As a teacher, your challenge is to partner with each family through recognizing their individual strengths, concerns, priorities, and resources.
In The Welcoming Classroom: Building Strong Home-to-School Connections for Early Learning, Dr. Johnna Darragh Ernst offers practical ideas for creating a welcoming atmosphere for families that will encourage them to participate in their children s learning community.
Learn practical ways to connect with families from varied cultural and language backgrounds and abilities. Gain new strategies for creating a home-school link to support learning. Create a richer learning environment by integrating unique family cultural perspectives. Learn ways to encourage family participation in decision making. Learn strategies to develop families as resources. Communicate the message that all families are valued members of the learning community.
 From improving children s school readiness to encouraging positive engagement with peers, promoting student academic achievement, increasing graduation rates, and helping reduce the negative impact of poverty, the benefits of engaging families early will impact the young children in your care long after they leave your classroom!

The Welcoming Classroom: Building Strong Home-to-School Connections for Early Learning

Education & Teaching

Johnna Darragh Ernst

Schools & Teaching

Winner of the 2015 Tillywig Toy Brain Child Award, the 2015 Mom's Choice Gold Award, and the 2015 National Parenting Publications Award! 
Science is easy! Observe. Explore. Analyze. Repeat. Children are natural scientists, drawn to wondering, exploration, discovery, and analysis. Science: Not Just for Scientists! gives you simple ideas to open up the world of discovery to young children. Through open-ended explorations, you will discover how to cultivate children s natural curiosity by asking simple questions: How? When? Where? And the most famous of all children s questions: Why? The hands-on activities will empower children to question, experiment, and develop abstract reasoning skills. Children will explore patterns, cause and effect, size and scale, change and growth, energy, and how things work. Easy to follow, step-by-step activities lead children and their caregivers through a new world of discovery. It's simple and fun to investigate: Patterns in Our Neighborhood; Who Can Live Here?; Big, Small, and In Between; Simple Machines; The Water Cycle; Energy Path; and so much more!

Science--Not Just for Scientists! Easy Explorations for Young Children

Leonisa Ardizzone

Experiments, Instruments & Measurement

Winner of the National Parenting Publications Awards, and the Silver AAP Revere Awards. 
 The evidence is clear: Children thrive and learn best when they experience tender, nurturing care.
 There's a dizzying array of checklists and evaluation tools on the market that measure almost every detail of the early childhood environment. But, as a director or caregiver, how do you know if the most important piece exploration and learning within a loving, supportive relationship is a part of your program?
 In Best for Babies, Alice Sterling Honig shows you how to nurture the youngest children with: Nourishing interactions Social-emotional support Boosts for thinking and reasoning skill development Support for language development Appropriate matches between child and activity Opportunities for creative exploration and pretend play Positive behavior reinforcement Child-sensitive classroom pacing Safe choices and opportunities for autonomy A warm environment where children and families feel welcome

Best for Babies: Expert Advice for Caregivers and Administrators in Assessing Infant-Toddler Programs

Alice Honig

Winner of the Creative Child Awards' Preferred Choice Award, Tillywig Toy Awards' Brain Child Award, and Academic's Choice Smart Book Award. 
 When we imagine happy young children, we picture exuberant and unbridled movement. Not only is movement natural, it is also necessary for optimal physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development. Moving children are developing children. With Move to Learn, educators can easily turn their classrooms into an environment that encourages movement activities rich in sensory, perceptual, and visual-motor experiences. 
Through simple strategies and activities, Move to Learn seamlessly integrates fine and gross motor-skill development across the early childhood curriculum. With most activities listed in order of difficulty, choosing the right one is easy! Regardless of the number of children, the physical classroom size, or the quality or quantity of equipment available, the ideas in Move to Learn are flexible enough to get every classroom moving.

Move to Learn: Integrating Movement into the Early Childhood Classroom

Joye Newman

Miriam Feinberg

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