How Modern Convenience Is Dumbing Down Our Children and What Parents and Schools Can Do about It
Modern society's excessive focus on convenience and simplicity has led to a decline in human intelligence. It is essential for families and schools to rethink how we raise our children. Emergence emphasizes the cultivation of five types of intelligence: intellectual, social, emotional, ethical, and physical, meeting this existential reality ......
This book provides K-8 educators with practical, research-based guidance for implementing-and advocating for!-risky play at school. Children are naturally drawn to risky play-taking physical chances, seeking excitement, and satisfying curiosity-and are more physically active when playing outdoors. Embracing Risky Play at School introduces readers ......
This textbook discusses various play interventions and techniques that child life specialists can use to address the psychological and emotional needs of young patients and their families while they are hospitalized. It explores foundational theories of child development and the impact of hospitalization on development, providing a framework for ......
Child Death and the Politics of Grief in Nineteenth-Century Britain
How a new culture of bereavement changed the relationship of the Victorian state to its most vulnerable subjects When the Tory Member of Parliament Michael Sadler argued in 1832 for state intervention on behalf of Britain's dying child factory workers, he elicited smirks and ridicule from his Liberal adversaries - a response that would have ......
Child Death and the Politics of Grief in Nineteenth-Century Britain
How a new culture of bereavement changed the relationship of the Victorian state to its most vulnerable subjects When the Tory Member of Parliament Michael Sadler argued in 1832 for state intervention on behalf of Britain's dying child factory workers, he elicited smirks and ridicule from his Liberal adversaries - a response that would have ......
The host of the internationally popular early childhood podcast "That Early Childhood Nerd" provides a framework for understanding the importance of free play. Free play is disappearing from the lives of too many young children, leaving them vulnerable to negative effects on their physical and mental health, social and emotional growth, and ......
The host of the internationally popular early childhood podcast "That Early Childhood Nerd" provides a framework for understanding the importance of free play. Free play is disappearing from the lives of too many young children, leaving them vulnerable to negative effects on their physical and mental health, social and emotional growth, and ......
A Realistic Approach to Helping Young Children Thrive in a Digitally Complex World
Use screen awareness to nurture and safeguard child development from birth to age 8 in the digital age. Early childhood professionals play a vital role in nurturing and safeguarding early development in the digital age. This book equips readers to grow their "screen awareness"-the knowledge and practices that uphold the developmental well-being ......
A Realistic Approach to Helping Young Children Thrive in a Digitally Complex World
Use screen awareness to nurture and safeguard child development from birth to age 8 in the digital age. Early childhood professionals play a vital role in nurturing and safeguarding early development in the digital age. This book equips readers to grow their "screen awareness"-the knowledge and practices that uphold the developmental well-being ......