Miscellaneous

VIDEOTAPES

Ready to Learn - There are many things parents and caregivers can do to help build a child's literacy skills from the time he is born. This video provides helpful information about the importance of communicating with your newborn, establishing reading routines, materials that prepare your child for reading and writing, activities to spark your child's interest in learning, the importance of quality childcare and incorporating literacy into everyday activities.

Touch a Heart, Teach a Mind: Brain Smart Ways to Build Bonds - Learn how to use 'I Love You Rituals' to achieve these 4 goals: boosting children's brain potential, foster conscious touching, build bonds that help children shift from valuing materials goods to one another and creating rituals that promote respect, cooperation and caring.

BOOKS

	Think of Something Quiet by Clare Cherry - Offers the early childhood educator strategies for achieving a low-stress classroom environment, techniques for responding to the tension and stress children experience and activities for helping children learn how to reduce their own tension and experience relaxation.
	A Sympathetic Understanding of the Child Birth to 16 by David Elkind - This book describes the personal, social and intellectual development of children as they progress from infancy through adolescence.
	Developmentally Appropriate Practice: Curriculum and Development in Early Education by Carol Gestwicki - Offers clear discussions on the specifics of what is and is not developmentally appropriate for children from birth through age 8. Learn and implement the philosophy of developmentally appropriate practice.
	Growing Up Drug Free: A Parent's Guide to Prevention by the US Department of Education - Guide for parents on raising drug-free children.
	Questions Children Ask and How to Answer Them by Dr Miriam Stoppard - A parent's guide to answering the many difficult questions that young children ask. Covers all the subjects that children are curious about, from relationships and reproduction to religion and death. Gives practical guidelines on how much to tell your child and what language to use.
	Story Stretchers: Activities to Expand Children's Favorite Books by Shirley C Raines and Robert J Canandy - 450 Ways to expand the impact and interest of 90 popular children's picture books. The activities are arranged in chapters with suggestions for integrating them into early childhood curriculum units.
	Building Self-Esteem in your Child by Susan Baile, PhD - How to give your child a healthy foundation for life.