Home Visiting
Home visiting, which reaches families with young children in extreme need, has been linked to positive outcomes, including reductions in infant deaths and childhood injuries; as well as increases in school readiness.
Resources
Home Visiting Campaign (Pew Charitable Trusts) - overview, research, video of a home visit.
In the Door and On the Floor: Watch a Home Visit in Action (video from Maryland Family Network)
In the Door and On the Floor: Watch a Home Visit in Action (video from Maryland Family Network)
Boxes And Imaginative Play
Playing in and with boxes is great fun for kids, and it's also a learning opportunity. It's empowering because the child gets to decide what the box is going to be, exercising her ingenuity, problem-solving skills, and spatial ability.
Resources
Parenting For Authentic Success
Children learn through experience - both success and failure. So, children learn from their victories, and also through scraped knees, and collapsed castles. When children learn from these incidents, we call them "successful failures."
Resources
Madeline Levine: Parenting for Authentic Success (KQED)
How to Raise a Child: "Teach Your Child Well" by Madeline Levine (New York Times)
Healthy Beginnings: Supporting Development and Learning from Birth through Three Years of Age (Maryland State Department of Education)]]>
How to Raise a Child: "Teach Your Child Well" by Madeline Levine (New York Times)
Healthy Beginnings: Supporting Development and Learning from Birth through Three Years of Age (Maryland State Department of Education)]]>