Sharing Web Resources

I have signed up to receive newsletters, based on three children in my classroom, based on their age to help support their overall growth and development. The main section of the newsletter that struck my interest is the spotlight section of the newsletter. In this newsletter that spotlight was on nurturing early writing skills. It gives a description of how each child learns at their own pace; with the support of their growing bodies and muscles. To help the children’s writing skills, offer the children activities like stringing beads, pop beads, Lego blocks, and play dough, along with other fine motor activities to build and strengthen their small muscles in their hands and fingers.  Then it gives a brief overview of the different developmental stages of writing skills for young children. It describes the different stages and how to help and support the child to move onto the next level or stage in their writing skills.

There is a section called what’s on your mind and it’s where parents send in questions regarding their child at a certain age. This specific parent asked about how to support their child to be more flexible compared to being ridged and wanting the same clothes, bowl, spoon, at all times. It explains how the child has a temperament and it can be different from the parents. It examples different ways to guide and support the children on being more open to new ideas by offering choices.  It shares that it’s typical of children in the toddler land to experience and be demanding of their wants and needs. Then it helps and supports the parents of how they feel regarding the situation of the child. It helps the parents validate their feelings and emotions of the situation that it’s okay for both the child and parent to have their feels based on the same situation. It helps them to work together as one to have different strategies and techniques to deal with the next situation that arises.

I looked around the website and the newsletters, I found on the site an article, “Building Relationships: Parallels between Infant-Toddler Development and the Public Policy Process.” It talks about policymakers and how to form relationships with the government on the federal and state levels. These levels of government are the ones that support, fund, and are the leaders, for the success of early childhood programs for young children and their families. I don’t think they are all only voice or support that are helping and guiding early childhood programs to gain the success of young children’s future. It gave a list of advocates within the community that are available to help guide and support children, families, and professionals within the field of early childhood education.

References:

Article: Building Relationships: Parallels between Infant-Toddler Development and the Public Policy Process. Retrieved from http://zttcfn.convio.net/site/DocServer/BuildingRelationships.pdf?docID=3641

Newsletter on 28 Month Old Child. Retrieved from http://main.zerotothree.org/site/PageServer?pagename=FromBabyToBigKid_Month28#ForYou