Socially Strong, Emotionally Secure: 50 Activities to Promote Resilience in Young Children by Nefertiti Bruce
$39.95 AUD
Category: Health and Emotional Development
Now more than ever, adults must help children develop the skills necessary to navigate successfully through life. By focusing on building social and emotional strength, adults increase children's resilience and prepare them to handle the challenges in life. The strategies and activities in Socially Stro ...Show more
TEACHING YOUNG CHILDREN IN VIOLENT TIMES 2ND ED by Diane E. Levin
$29.95 AUD
Category: Health and Emotional Development | Series: A\Pre-School-Grade 3 Violence Prevention and Conflict Resolution Guide Ser.
A guide for teachers offers activities to help children meet safety needs, appreciate diversity, and resolve conflicts.
Emotional Release for Children by Mark Pearson & Patricia Nolan
$34.95 AUD
Category: Health and Emotional Development
Sequel to Emotional First-Aid for Children, this is a guide for teachers, counsellors and parents to help children release their emotional stress and support children to talk openly about their problems. Includes step-by-step games and exercises for encouraging children's growth in self-awareness and in ...Show more
PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE EARLY YEA by WOODFIELD LYNDA
$23.00 AUD
Category: Health and Emotional Development | Series: Classmates Ser.
This book shows that experiential learning is an indispensable part of a child's development. It gives teachers practical advice on how to incorporate enjoyable play-based physical activity into a timetable too often focused on academic achievement.
PROTECTING CHILDREN A PRACTICAL GUIDE 2ED by Janet Kay
$46.00 AUD
Category: Health and Emotional Development | Series: Practical Childcare Ser.
This fully up-dated second edition of Protecting Children provides the framework for understanding child abuse and child protection issues for people who work with children in a variety of professional and informal settings. Written in Kay's characteristically lucid and approachable style, the text brim ...Show more
THEY DONT LIKE ME by Jane Katch
$21.99 AUD
Category: Health and Emotional Development
In her new book, Jane Katch explores the painful problems of bullying, teasing, and exclusion. Why, she wonders, does a young child, just becoming aware of the existence of the group, feel such a strong need to keep another child out? And is it possible to teach children to create social groups that are ...Show more
HEALTHY CHILDREN by Coralie Mathews
$73.00 AUD
Category: Health and Emotional Development
Provides child services students with a strong foundation for their career in child care, and an essential and practical guide for those already working with young children. This text addresses the new child care competencies developed by the Australian National Training Authority.
SAFEGUARDING AND PROTECTING CHILDREN IN THE EARLY YEARS by James Reid (Editor); Steven Burton (Editor)
$61.99 AUD
Category: Health and Emotional Development
This book provides a comprehensive guide to safeguarding and child protection in the early years. Aimed at students and practitioners it offers insight into contemporary developments in early years and safeguarding practice and sets out the legal and policy foundations for effective practice before expl ...Show more
Developing Attachment in Early Years Settings: Nurturing Secure Relationships from Birth to Five Years by Veronica Read
$46.99 AUD
Category: Health and Emotional Development
Early Years practitioners, like mothers and fathers to be, require a period of preparation before the arrival of a baby. Developing Attachment in Early Years Settings is about how you can help yourself to prepare for the care of individual babies and children in your settings. Without good attachm ...Show more
WE DONT PLAY WITH GUNS HERE by Penny Holland
$67.95 AUD
Category: Health and Emotional Development | Series: Debating Play Ser.
""A significant contribution to the continuing exploration of the issues surrounding the learning potential of young children's play. Holland's writing is engaging, her subject is of considerable interest, and her approach succeeds in challenging many of the taken-for-granted assumptions in several area ...Show more
LISTENING TO CHILDREN by Nancy Close
$90.95 AUD
Category: Health and Emotional Development
Prior to discussing how to use young children's communications about specific fears and ideas from death to the origin of babies to expand their critical thinking and adults' listening skills, Close (Yale Child Study Center) overviews affective, cognitive, language, and social development, and the