Redleaf Press

Physical education is a critical part of early childhood. Children need to move to channel their energies in creative, beneficial ways and to learn habits for lifelong health and fitness. This pamphlet is a great way for early childhood professionals to partner with and educate families to support their children’s physical, social-emotional, cognitive, and creative development through movement.

As an early childhood professional, you are familiar with the critical role of play in children's lives. With Why Children Play, you can share this information with families and advocate for the best—and most advantageous—play experiences. This educational booklet will help families understand the benefits of high-level play and recognize the ways it develops children’s academic skills. It includes information to help parents

Understand the benefits of engaging, high level play
Recognize how play develops children's academic skills
Identify high-level play
Support children's play by interacting and showing interest

These booklets are a great way for all early childhood professionals to partner with families to better support children.

Technology has become woven into our everyday lives—the ways in which we gather and share information have changed in remarkable ways over the past fifteen years. Children born in the twenty-first century are growing up with technology, so it’s important to examine why and how they are using what they use. Use this informational booklet to answer some of the questions families may have when it comes to using technology in your educational setting and at home. This booklet, a family companion to the book Teaching in the Digital Age: Smart Tools for Age 3 to Grade 3, provides parents with information about some of the technologies that children might use in the classroom and how they support learning experiences. It also includes ideas parents can use to support their children and the overall technology program, identifiers to look for to recognize if technology is helping children learn, tips to create a technology-use plan, and suggested websites and applications. Sold in packs of 25, these booklets are a great way for classroom teachers to partner with families to better support children.

Keep families up-to-date on your family child care curriculum with this easy to understand guide. Help families follow developmental milestones and learning domains, including the all new Approaches to Learning.

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Give concerned families the important facts they need when biting incidents occur. This educational booklet provides information on why children bite, explains appropriate responses, and includes advice for further action. This is a family companion to No Biting: Policy and Practice for Toddler Programs, a resource book developed by a task force of experienced child care professionals. It has been used by many child care programs across the country as a resource to address biting. Sold in packs of 25, these booklets are perfect for toddler teachers and caregivers to use as handouts to families of children who bite or have been bitten by other children.

Make a coordinated effort with families as their children begin potty training. This informational booklet explains the signs when a child is ready to begin potty training, provides tips to help parents prepare for training, and answers common questions. This is a family companion to Good Going! Successful Potty Training for Children in Child Care, a resource book developed by a task force of experienced child care professionals by Redleaf Press. It has been used by many child care programs across the country as a resource to address potty training. These booklets are a great way for early childhood professionals to partner with families to better support children.

Young children are busy learners. Some things they learn are obvious to us, such as walking and talking or counting to ten. Social and emotional skills might be less obvious, but they are just as important. As an early childhood professional, you can help the families you work with learn about six of the most important social and emotional skills for young children—attachment, belonging, self-regulation, collaboration, contribution, and adaptability. This family companion to Beyond Behavior Management: The Six Life Skills Children Need includes suggestions that families can use at home to help children learn the skills. Sold in packs of 25, these booklets are a great way to partner with families to better support children.

Physical play is vital to young children’s development. This pamphlet to be shared with families complements Embracing Rough and Tumble Play and will help families understand the importance of effectively working big body movement into children's daily schedules and how physical play makes teaching practice more dynamic and effective.

Starting kindergarten is an important, exciting, and maybe even scary step for children—and possibly for their parents. Work with families as they prepare their children with Getting Ready for Kindergarten, an educational booklet written just for them. It includes information on the skills and behaviors children need to do well in school, contains a parent's to-do list, and provides support to help families navigate the sometimes complicated process and take charge of getting their child started in kindergarten. These booklets are a great way for early childhood professionals to partner with families to better support children.

These days outdoor play has to compete with a number of comfortable and entertaining indoor pastimes—video games, television shows, and computer time, among others—and many children are likely to spend their free time couched in front of a screen rather than playing outside. But outdoor playtime, time spent in a natural outdoor setting, has valuable, unique, and lasting effects on the way children learn and grow. This educational booklet, a family companion to Redleaf Press’s resources Celebrate Nature!, Lens on Outdoor Learning, Nature Sparks, and Cultivating Outdoor Classrooms, provides information to help families of young children recognize the value of children’s connections to the natural world. It includes ideas that encourage outdoor family time to maximize the lasting impacts nature has on growing children. These booklets are a great way for early childhood professionals to partner with families to better support children.