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, …
The Redleaf Family Child Care Curriculum: Teaching Through Quality Care
This leading resource is a specifically designed curriculum for family child-care providers. They will be able to incorporate best practices and activities appropriate for the mixed ages of children in their care. Developmental domains and milestones, learning areas, age-appropriate activities and outcomes, and more are included. It is far more affordable than other family child care curriculum alternatives, …
There are many unique tax rules that affect your family child care business: Time-Space percentage, Food Program and food expenses, general house expenses, and more. The Family Child Care 2015 Tax Companion is a comprehensive tool that will help your tax preparer understand your business. Using this resource will increase your confidence in the tax professional who prepares …
Disciplina con amor para abuelos: Una segunda oportunidad para amar (Spanish Edition)
In a time of great changes in the family dynamic, this book is dedicated to grandparents, whose tendency is to spoil—a word that can have different connotations. When used as an expression of love and unconditional acceptance, it nourishes and strengthens a grandchild’s emotional well-being. Spending time with grandparents becomes a treat rather than a chore. But when …
The most comprehensive resource available, this book contains up-to-date guidance so you can accurately complete your own tax return and take advantage of all the business deductions that you’re entitled to claim. It contains information about new tax laws, tips to help you save money, and tools that will take the guesswork out of doing your taxes.The Family …
Professionalizing Early Childhood Education as a Field of Practice: A Guide to the Next Era
Where do you begin the important conversation about professionalizing early childhood education (ECE) as a field of practice? This book is the tool you need to advance the conversation and shape the future of ECE. Professionalizing Early Childhood Education as a Field of Practice provides an overview of the topic, a participant guide, a conversation workbook, and a facilitator …
Learn the fun way! These funky A-Z letters packed into 28 pages make an excellent choice for young children to learn and accustom themselves with the alphabet in an exciting and enjoyable way. Make the letters come alive with vibrant and vivid crayons! Art is like a rainbow … never-ending and brightly colored. Feed your creative mind …
This collection of 12 essays has been assembled out of a concern that many young people in America have little contact with the world of nature. The essays aspire to awaken in readers the wish to assist young people by guiding them to what lies outside their front door or in a local park or woodland, and that …
When you put your baby in the hands of a sitter, you want to put your sitter in the hands of an expert. Certainly no hands are better qualified than those of Heidi Murkoff, co-author of What to Expect When You’re Expecting and other bestselling childcare guides with over 22 million copies in print. Marrying the reassuring authority …
More Than Words presents a step-by-step guide for parents of children with autism spectrum disorder in an extensive, practical, and user-friendly format. Strategies are drawn from current research to help children develop more advanced communication skills, focusing on helping the child reach the following four goals: 1) improved two-way interaction, 2) more mature and conventional ways of communication, …