Overview

Starting with Character focuses on character development in infants, toddlers, and twos. This guide provides everything needed for preparing the environment, creating routines, and evaluating individual learning styles. Lesson plans and steps for creating new lessons are provided, as well as guides for evaluating children's progress. Facilitate the development of key character traits in children: caring, honesty, integrity, respect, responsibility, and self-discipline. Softbound, 120 pgs. Age focus: 0–2.

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9781605544472

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This book gives parents and teachers of little ones the concrete EASY activities that they can start TODAY that will prepare children for tomorrow. It encourages caregivers to look beyond using short-term applied behavior methods and take a long-term view that creates future citizens of good character. I enjoyed the narration of the case studies that provided the reader with more interest. As a provider of early intervention services, I was happy to see that many of the activities can also be easily adapted to improve communication and social pragmatic skills in young children. Parents often ask me for tips on how to improve their child's behavior, but since I read this book I was able to better articulate the importance of instilling character and describe an activity that would allow them to work toward the goal of character and look beyond behavior. Rebecca Gray, CCC-SLP

Author Information

Cathy Waggoner has worked in the field of education since 1989 with experience as a daycare director and now an administrator at the Promethean Foundation. Her work with young children has focused on character development and the importance of providing quality preschool for all children. Martha Herndon, PhD, has worked as both an ECE educator and researcher since 1975. Martha received her PhD in Individual and Family Behavior from the University of Tennessee, USA, with a focus on developing programs and optimal environments for children and families.

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