"This book will introduce fourteen of the most important soft skills in the field of education. It will explain how each skill is used in teaching as well as ideas for how to model and explain them in college classrooms, field experiences, and student teaching"--

A Harvard faculty member and oral language specialist provides adults with evidence-based tools and techniques to help them have productive and meaningful conversations with children of all ages. Science has shown that the best way to help our kids become independent, kind, and happy is by talking to them-- yet we are at a loss on how to have meaningful conversations. Rolland reveals that a great conversation has a double benefit: helping adults...

"Los padres y las madres nos tomamos la educación muy en serio, pero debemos dejar de copiar antiguos modelos para empezar a innovar, ser creativos y pensar que existe otra forma de educar sin recurrir a los gritos y a la figura de autoridad. Y, sobre todo, son desesperarnos. Educar non Serenidad ofrece soluciones crativas, divertidas y al alcance de todos para disfrutar educando."--back cover. "Fathers and mothers take education very seriously,...

Provides advice on all aspects of infant care from the members of the American Academy of Pediatrics, discussing such topics as behavior, growth, immunizations, and safety. Traducción al español del resumen en inglés: Brinda asesoramiento sobre todos los aspectos del cuidado infantil a los miembros de la Academia Estadounidense de Pediatría, y analiza temas como el comportamiento, el crecimiento, las inmunizaciones y la seguridad.

The average American child spends over 40 hours per week consuming media, the equivalent of a full-time job. This means that by the time children born today turn 30, they will have spent an entire decade of their lives in front of some type of screen. Remote Control, based on the findings of the Kaiser Family Foundation's landmark study Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8 to 18-year-olds, examines the implications of this unprecedented level of...

Get ready to move and groove, and have fun with your child and explore all kinds of movement. Dance with Baby Elmo, laugh with Baby Big Bird, and run around with ants in your pant like Baby Cookie Monster as you build your child's eagerness to learn.

Hold On To Your Kids explores the trend of peers replacing parents in the lives of children. It explains the causes of this crucial breakdown of parental influence - and offers compassionate, commonsense solutions.

First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton made children her passion and her cause. Her experience with children strengthened her conviction that how children develop and what they need to succeed is inextricably entwined with the society in which they live and how well it sustains and supports its families and individuals. In other words, it takes a village to raise a child. This book chronicles her quest to discover how we can make our society into the kind...

This text examines the work of five groundbreaking education theorists: John Dewey, Maria Montessori, Erik Erikson, Jean Piaget, and Lev Vygotsky, in relation to early childhood. It provides a basic introduction to each theorist and explains the relationship of theory to practice and its impact on real children, teachers, and classrooms. The second edition builds the bridge between theory and best practices in early childhood education, explains more...

"Blending cutting-edge research with engaging storytelling, The Breakthrough Years offers readers a paradigm-shifting comprehensive understanding of adolescence. Almost every adolescent has said to parents, "You JUST don't understand." In The Breakthrough Years, child development expert Ellen Galinsky explains why that is so often true. Galinsky's seven-year inquiry into the adolescent brain and behavior, including conducting original studies-uniquely...