Saturday, March 26, 2011
Sharing Web Resources
The Zero to Three website offers a variety of information regarding early childhood development that is beneficial to my professional career. The Zero to Three website provides information by using various media tools such as newsletters, video, featured resources, brain information and downloads of the week. This weeks "download of the week" is "Healthy Minds 24-36 months". This article from the National Academy of Scientists shows that scientists are still studying early child development and brain development. I found this article to be very informative about healthy development and ways to achieve this. This article provides parents with information to support brain development and ways children grow and learn at this age. As a parent educator, it is important to learn new ways to support parents in this area and help them better understand their child's development. With the onset of ADD/ADHD and autism in young children, I found the section regarding challenging behaviors to be beneficial to early childhood professionals. This section discusses different types of behaviors and how to cope with them. It also provides handouts to parents and educators to manage and help with these behavior issues.
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Angie thanks for a wonderful post. I am going to share this website with my niece. She has a son who will be 2 in June. The article on Healthy Minds will help her as she stays at home with Landon. I also agree with you that we are seeing more children with austium and ADD/ADHD and I think the article with given ways to handle these children at home would be great for parents.
ReplyDeleteThe challenging behavior section is very beneficial to caregivers as well as parents. Caregivers and parents can learn about different behaviors and what they can do to help that child with their behavior. I find this section very interesting.
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