Family & Relationships

From the author of No Biting comes a comprehensive potty-training guide for child care teachers. Good Going! addresses the issues involved when young children are potty trained in a group setting, such as in the classroom, as well as in the home. Eight chapters offer a healthy perspective for developing consistent policies and successful practices for potty training, as well as guidelines for developing productive partnerships with parents—including sample parent communication tools and detailed resource lists.

Gretchen Kinnell is the director of education and training at the Child Care Council in Syracuse, NY. She is also an adjunct instructor at Onondaga Community College and a regular contributor to Syracuse Newspaper’s "Partners in Parenting" column.

Parents will appreciate Creating a Beautiful Mess because it's fun and helpful. This book isn't about parenting rights or wrongs; it's about playful, joyous play experiences for childhood that are universal. It boils down the essential play experiences in an accessible, practical, and easy way. The chapters represent an optimal balance among experiences that support learning, provide physical activity, encourage creative expression, and promote social and family connections.

As infants become toddlers, their expanding sense of self, growing motor, language, and cognitive skills provide opportunities for learning more about the physical and social world around them. This book is a valuable resource for advancing a child's sense of self, cultural identity, social relationships, and connectedness to community through developmentally appropriate activities.

Carla B. Goble has a MS and PhD in child development from Oklahoma State University and a BS in education from the University of Central Oklahoma. She is an award-winning early childhood educator, founding member of the Oklahoma Early Childhood Education Organization.

Barbara Oehlberg, MA, is an education and child trauma consultant who has presented for many organizations throughout the country. With a career that has spanned many levels, Barbara has spent more than 30 years making a positive impact on children’s lives.

Challenge, engage, and interact with five-year-olds to promote brain development. These hands-on learning activity ideas support children as they build skills in all areas. These activity cards are compact and portable, making it easy for parents, caregivers, and educators to jumpstart interactive, brain-building play anywhere throughout the day.

These quick and engaging activity ideas help parents, caregivers, and educators promote the development of language, cognitive, social-emotional, and physical skills in one-year-olds. The activity cards are compact and portable, making it easy to jumpstart interactive, brain-building play with young children anywhere throughout the day.

Enhance three-year-olds' brain development and support their learning through attentive and fun interactions. These activity cards are compact and portable, making it easy for parents, caregivers, and educators to jumpstart brain-building play anywhere throughout the day.

Support an infant's healthy social-emotional and cognitive development with these age-appropriate activity ideas. The activity cards are compact and portable, making it easy for parents, caregivers, and educators to jumpstart interactive play and support brain development anywhere with babies throughout the day.

Four-year-olds learn best through authentic experiences in life. These activity ideas provide hands-on learning in all skill areas and support brain development. These activity cards are compact and portable, making it easy for parents, caregivers, and educators to jumpstart learning anywhere throughout the day.