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Your Successful Preschooler: Ten Skills Children Need to Become Confident and Socially Engaged
By: Ann E. Densmore , Margaret L. BaumaneBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Imprint: Jossey-Bass
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The latest research shows that children can be taught--at very early ages--the tools they need to become successful and connected to others. This new book offers parents and teachers the information they need to teach children the most effective ways to engage peers and make social interactions easier and more meaningful.
Your Successful Preschooler: Shows how facilitated play can become an opportunity to improve your child's emotional connections with peers Teaches parents and educators how to foster growth in vocabulary and language during play, key ingredients to academic success Presents dozens of anecdotes with dialogues parents can use to teach children how to better relate to their peers
Using the methods outlined in the book, parents and teachers can support activities that lead to a lifetime of social success and likeability that are crucial for every child's emotional stability.
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| Title of Family & Relationships eBook: Your Successful Preschooler: Ten Skills Children Need to Become Confident and Socially Engaged | |
| Release Date: 12-09-2010 | |
| Publisher: Jossey-Bass |
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Your Successful Preschooler: Ten Skills Children Need to Become Confident and Socially Engaged
Chapter One
Children Can Learn to Be Successful
AS ADULTS, WE STRIVE to learn something new every day. Yet the youngest children can accomplish the same task almost without trying. In no other time of life can we literally see learning occur right before our eyes. We're transfixed as an infant suddenly crawls at seven months and then can walk just a few months later. A child's babbling at six months may become expressive speech in just a year.
This chapter introduces the basic developmental signs of a typical child in moving from toddlerhood toward preschool years, including the changes of the developing brain. Parents and teachers need to have some baseline reference to help them observe how their child is developing and learning to become more successful as a person.
• By success, we don't mean that your child is destined to graduate from Harvard Law School at the age of sixteen. Instead, we mean that a child is resourceful, confident, and happy and gives to the wider community. It's a long road toward this success, but it begins early in a child's life.
Babies, even those who still can't walk or talk, begin to engage in pretend play as young as eighteen months. A toddler can pretend to comb a doll's hair with a pencil or wave a stick as if it were a magic wand, giggling as she plays to show that she knows she's pretending. Research shows that two and three year olds giggle when they pretend play so we won't take them too seriously. Soon even the youngest preschoolers are turning objects like blocks into fire engines as they shove them along the floor. They create simple stories and can de
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