PDF Addressing Challenging Child Behaviors - QCC Newsletter View
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In this newsletter, we will discuss an approach that helps you engage the family to jointly address the child’s behavior by: documenting occurrences over a period of time, scheduling a conference to have a non-judgmental discussion with the family, agreeing to a shared behavior modification plan, and continuing to discuss the child’s progress.
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PDF Balancing Different Perspective Volume III. No 7 View
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This newsletter features ways to partner with families of the children in your care.
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PDF Basic Health and Safety Practices: Child Care Provider's Guide View
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PDF Big Body Play View
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This newsletter explores "Big Body Play", a type of active play that is physical and often rough and tumble. The benefits of such play are discussed, as are common concerns about this type of play and tips for ensuring children's safety.
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PDF Block Play Fosters Development - QCC Newsletter View
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In this newsletter, we will share many uses and benefits of block play for young children at different developmental stages.
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PDF Brain Development December 2013 Newsletter View
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This newsletter will focus on daily interactions that you can have with your child to support their brain development.
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PDF Building a Love of Science for Your Young Child - March 2015 Newsletter View
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This newsletter will provide tips for you to use with your infant, toddler, or preschooler, as well as suggest activities that promote scientific thinking that you can do with your child at home.
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PDF Building a Partnership with Your Care Provider December 2012 Newsletter View
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PDF Building Language and Literacy with Book Sharing - April 2018 Newsletter View
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In this newsletter, we will offer tips for book sharing with children at each age level—infants, toddlers and preschoolers. We will also introduce, “dialogic reading,” a book sharing technique especially suitable for toddlers and preschoolers.
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PDF Building Responsibility April 2014 Newsletter View
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Newsletter that includes information to help you support your child build his/her responsibility.
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PDF Building Support for Children's Mental Health View
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This newsletter will feature the powerful effect that caregivers' relationships and interactions have on emotional well-being, three overarching child care practices that build strong relationships, and nine indicators of responsive caregiving.
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PDF Building Trust with Parents of Children with Special Needs View
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This newsletter focuses on building trusting relationships with the families of children in your care and your role in talking with families about their child's development and any special needs.
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PDF Celebrating Dual Language Learners View
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Becoming multi-lingual is often an asset in the world today. However, it can be difficult to support young children whose home language differs from the one used in the care setting. This newsletter explores language development and the ways in which care providers can support the needs of dual language learners. Benefits and concerns about dual language exposure are addressed.
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PDF Child Care Providers' Role in Children's Oral Health - December 2015 QCC Newsletter View
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This newsletter describes some common oral health concerns that affect young children, in particular infants and toddlers, and gives you recommendations to promote oral hygiene in your program as well as tips that you can share with families.
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PDF Children’s Health—Their Skin Tells a Story View
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This newsletter discusses common skin disorders, both non-contagious and contagious, and the importance of daily health checks when children arrive each day.
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PDF Choosing Child Care Booklet View
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The Choosing Child Care booklet provides information on child care alternatives available to families.
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PDF Choosing Child Care Brochure View
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The Choosing Child Care brochure provides families with information on what to look for in a quality child care provider. Various child care options are presented, as well as a step-by-step checklist that will help families with their child care decision.
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PDF Consistent Care - the Key to Helping Children with Social Emotional Difficulties View
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This newsletter discusses the importance of consistency of care to the development of social emotional skills in young children - especially for children who may exhibit social-emotional difficulties. Resources and tips for addressing these concerns are provided.
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PDF Continuing Education - QCC May 2016 Newsletter View
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This month's issue will focus on our state and national recommendations for knowledge and skills needed by those responsible for the care of young children.
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PDF Daycare Dangers that Result in Insurance Claims View
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This newsletter discusses common safety concerns that could result in injury and insurance claims. Seven common dangers are discussed and safety tips for avoiding these dangers are provided.
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PDF Developmental Milestones June 2017 View
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This newsletter contains developmental milestones to be aware of in infancy, the toddler years, and preschool years.
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PDF Developmental Milestones November 2013 Newsletter View
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This newsletter contains developmental milestones to be aware of in infancy, the toddler years, and preschool years
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PDF Discipline Techniques for Young Children - February 2016 Newsletter View
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This newsletter will talk about ways to utilize prevention, guidance, and consequence techniques when disciplining young children. In addition, age-appropriate activities for your infant, toddler, and preschooler are given.
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PDF Dramatic Play Supports Children's Development View
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In this newsletter, we will share research which describes the: benefits of dramatic play, components of dramatic play, and strategies for facilitating dramatic play.
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PDF Early Learning Exposure: Closing the 30 Million Words Gap - March 2018 Newsletter View
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This newsletter will focus on the “Three T’s”, three steps for ensuring a language-rich environment, adapted from University of Chicago’s “Thirty Million Words Initiative.”
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PDF Encouraging Healthy Eating Habits - May 2014 Newsletter View
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This newsletter will provide you with simple actions you can take to instill healthy eating habits in your child. By encouraging good eating habits now, you can make a huge impact on his healthy lifestyle in the future.
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PDF Encouraging Healthy Eating Habits May Newsletter 2017 View
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Forming healthy eating habits begins early. Consistently teaching your child to eat nutritiously will help his growth, development, and overall health throughout his life.
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PDF Establishing Routines to Support Healthy Emotional Development - Dec 2016 Newsletter View
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By establishing routines you are helping your child to feel safe, loved, and cared for.
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PDF Family Time on a Budget - May 2015 Newsletter View
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This newsletter will provide you with some money-saving tips and inexpensive activities to help you stay on budget and have fun with your young child.
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PDF Food Safety and Your Child - June 2016 FFN Newsletter View
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This newsletter will provide you with food safety tips for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.
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PDF Fostering a Growth Mindset with Appropriate Praise View
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This newsletter will focus on strategies, tips and examples for promoting a growth mindset in young children by: using process-praise, paying attention to what children are doing, and using questioning strategies.
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PDF Fostering Children's Mathematical Skills Through Everyday Experiences and Play-QCC March Newsletter View
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Math experiences in the early childhood years can greatly increase the likelihood of success in mathematics.
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PDF Getting to Know Your Child - November 2016 Newsletter View
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This newsletter will focus on understanding your child’s temperament. It also provides age-appropriate activities you can do with your child, with modifications to fit his temperament.
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PDF Getting to Know Your Child September 2012 Newsletter View
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PDF Helping Your Child Cope with Stress - October 2014 Newsletter View
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The way families handle stress and model how to cope with challenges affects how a child grows and develops. This newsletter gives tips on how you can support your child and gives age-specific activities for your infant, toddler, and preschooler.
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PDF How Young is Too Young: Using Technology Responsibility February 2013 Newsletter View
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This newsletter focuses on recommendations for responsible use of electronic media in supporting a child's healthy development.
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PDF How Young is Too Young: Using Technology Responsibly - January 2016 Newsletter View
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This month's newsletter will focus on some of the following key messages from the American Academy of Pediatrics Media Research Symposium that encourage parents in the responsible use of electronic media in a way that supports their child's healthy development.
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PDF I Am Who I Am Because of You - March 2016 Newsletter View
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This newsletter will focus on suggested ways you can introduce and support your child’s learning about her cultural heritage. Activities that incorporate cultural traditions and practices that you can do with your infant, toddler, and preschooler are also included.
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PDF Immunize Your Child Against Common Childhood Diseases - November 2014 Newsletter View
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This newsletter addresses information provided by the Center for Disease Control on a few common vaccine-preventable diseases in young children, as well as tips on making immunization visits more positive for your child.
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PDF Keeping Art Activities Safe View
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In this newsletter, we’ll show you: Labels to look for when purchasing art materials, Information from Penn State Better Kid Care on the health and safety basics of providing art experiences, Insert: Art materials for infants and toddlers: What’s safe and what’s not.
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PDF Keeping Your Home Safe for Your Child to Explore - December 2014 Newsletter View
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This newsletter provides additional ideas on how to childproof your home for each age group and suggests safe activities you can do with your child at home.
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PDF Keeping Your Young Child Safe - June 2014 Newsletter View
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This newsletter will focus on safety issues that need to be paid close attention to for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. In addition, age appropriate activities are also included.
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PDF Keeping Your Young Child Safe-February 2017 View
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This newsletter will focus on safety issues that need to be addressed for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.
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PDF Language Development in the Media Age- QCC February Newsletter View
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In this newsletter we will discuss ways to use media that support children's language development.
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PDF Learning about Math Everyday October 2012 Newsletter View
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PDF Learning to Grow Developmental Guidelines and Early Learning Activities for Infants and Toddlers View
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Learning to Grow Developmental Guidelines and Early Learning Activities for Infants and Toddlers book provides information on the growth and development of young children (birth to 48 months) and includes samples of simple-to-do activities that can be done with infants and toddlers to support their development. A "How This Helps" section for each activity describes the ways in which a child's development is influenced by engaging in the activity. To order this book, please use the Learning to Grow order form LTG activity books order form_Jan2016
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PDF Maintaining Children's Health and Safety When You Have Pets - QCC Newsletter View
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In this newsletter, we will use the information from standards to focus on risk management in child care with pets and how to keep parents informed.
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PDF Managing Job Stress View
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This newsletter will discuss some of the ways child care providers can buffer stress and become resilient in the face of the challenges of this work.
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PDF National Accreditation for Family Child Care Providers - QCC April 2018 Newsletter View
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In this newsletter, we will provide the following information about NAFCC accreditation: Purpose, Philosophy, Content Areas of the Quality Standards, and Self-Assessment Process.
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PDF Nurturing Young Children's Curiosity and Creativity - April 2016 Newsletter View
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This newsletter will talk about ways that you can encourage and support your child's curiosity and creativity.
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PDF Outdoor Activities with Your Child January 2013 Newsletter View
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This newsletter focuses on outdoor play activities for you do to with your child.
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PDF Positive Guidance Strategy Redirection - January 2018 Newsletter View
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In this newsletter, we will focus on the positive guidance strategy of redirection and offer tips and examples for using this strategy with infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.
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PDF Promoting Healthy Dental Care - May 2016 Newsletter View
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This newsletter provides dental care information for each age group along with activities you can do with your child to help encourage healthy dental habits.
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PDF Promoting Healthy Emotional Development through Routines View
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This newsletter is filled with practical ideas on establishing routines with your child and age-appropriate activities that you can do at home to promote a healthy emotional growth.
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PDF Reading with Your Young Child - February 2015 Newsletter View
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This newsletter will provide reading tips for you to use with your infant, toddler, or preschooler as well as suggest reading activities that you can do with your child at home.
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PDF Relationships as a Buffer against Toxic Stress - November 2015 QCC Newsletter View
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In this newsletter, we’ll describe what is known about how toxic stress brought on by multiple Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) affects children’s developing brains and bodies. We’ll conclude with the powerful positive impact your relationships with children have that buffers the potential damage.
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PDF Scientific Thinking: Building on Your Child's Natural Curiosity - March 2018 Newsletter View
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In this newsletter, we will offer tips and suggest activities to promote your child’s scientific thinking at each age level – infants, toddlers and preschoolers.
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PDF Separation Anxiety and Rituals View
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This newsletter will discuss the importance of developing rituals for young children and will offer examples that you can use to help ease separation anxiety with infants, toddlers and preschoolers.
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PDF Serve and Return Interactions Support Brain Development - QCC Nov 2016 Newsletter View
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In this newsletter, we will focus on one of the significant parent and child care provider behaviors that support children’s brain development: Serve and Return Interactions.
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PDF Show Your Child that He is Important and Loved - September 2014 Newsletter View
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This newsletter will focus on ways to show your child how important he is to you. It will also include ideas of age-appropriate activities you may enjoy doing together with your child.
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PDF Support Positive Approaches to Learning Volume III, No. 6 View
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This newsletter will illuminate important approaches to learning that affect later school success and provide examples of how family child care providers can support chidren's positive approaches to learning.
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PDF Suppporting Children's Language and Literacy Development April 2017 View
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This newsletter will offer tips for communicating with young children and identifying the kinds of interactions and language experiences that support their language and literacy development.
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PDF Toys: Safety and What to Look For View
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In this newsletter, we will offer tips and questions to ask yourself when selecting a toy for each age level – infants, toddlers and preschoolers.
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PDF Understanding Autism View
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This month's newsletter Understanding Autism will feature information to help you support children with autism.
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PDF Using Positive Guidance to Prepare Children for School View
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This newsletter discusses the importance of positive guidance for developing social skills, self-regulation and cooperation; all important skills that help to prepare young children to enter school. Examples of how positive guidance is used with different age groups are presented.
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PDF Using Positive Guidance with Your Child January 2014 Newsletter View
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Newsletter that includes information to support you in guiding your child's behavior.
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PDF Using Positive Guidance with Your Young Child January 2017 View
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Infants, toddlers, and preschoolers behave and communicate differently. Positive guidance for each age group is different.
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PDF Using Praise Effectively View
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This newsletter will discuss examples of using specific process-oriented praise, and will present strategies and tips for using praise effectively.
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PDF Using Redirection Techniques with Your Young Child - January 2015 newsletter View
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This newsletter will present some common behaviors you may see in your infant, toddler, and preschooler, ways to support and address their behavior, including ways to redirect your child’s attention in various situations
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PDF Using Serve and Return Interactions with Your Child View
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This newsletter will address the important role that you play in your child’s brain development, and offer strategies and tips for increasing serve and return opportunities with your child.
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PDF What Makes a Family Child Care a Profession? Vol. III No. 8 View
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In this newsletter, we’ll explore the qualities that define family child care as a bona fide profession and encourages providers to reflect on what they can do to create a professional atmosphere.
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PDF Why Play March 2017 View
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In this newsletter you will learn why play is so important in a child's development and how it helps the brain grow and learn.
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PDF Your Growing Child's Small Muscle Development - December 2015 Newsletter View
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This newsletter will focus on activities you can do with your child that encourages her to use and develop her small muscles, especially those in her fingers and hands.
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PDF Your Growing Child’s Large Muscle Physical Development - June 2015 Newsletter View
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This newsletter provides some information and activities to help you support your child’s large muscle development and have fun with her in the process.
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