Learn techniques for providing child care for children with disabilities. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video outlines the many ways in which play affects the social, emotional, and cognitive growth of children from birth through age eight, years crucial to their development. The video is organized in five segments to highlight the many ways play can enrich a child’s life. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video reviews the program standards for high-quality child care and provides parents the information and guidance needed to make the best child care decision for their child. Available on DVD and VHS formats.

This video was developed to help parents make informed choices about child care for their young children. The video provides a comprehensive overview of the developmental needs of young children within child care settings. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

How much should a child eat? What is normal eating? This book addresses these concerns and many others surrounding the relationship between parents, children, and food.

The goal of this video's four-part strategy is to help children cope with the dozens of frustrations, conflicts, and strong feelings that they experience on a daily basis. Available in DVD and VHS formats. Includes: Study Guide

This book teaches parents and child-care providers cooking and gardening activities for children as well as other highly useful home economics concepts.

This collection of over 450 rhymes, songs, stories, and fingerplays, in both English and Spanish, provides the opportunity to explore the sounds of language and build vocabulary.

This book presents a six-step mediation process adults can use to support young children during these tense moments.

This video examines current thinking among teachers regarding guidance and discipline, the factors that separate acceptable from challenging behavior, and why they think children's misbehavior should be considered as "mistaken" rather than "wrong." Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This is a five-part series developed for family child care providers, for pre-service and in-service education, and for parents. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video is resource for bringing real-life challenging childcare situations into child development classes, workshops, and in-service training sessions for observation and discussion. Includes: VHS and Facilitator's Guide

This book explores nine domains of child emotional and social development from birth to 6 years and includes major theories and findings from research.

This video explores the significance of the caregiver-child attachment relationship and how caregivers can promote play that is meaningful for toddlers by building on everyday experiences and routines.

This book presents information on children’s growth accompanied by age-specific, child-tested recipes.

This video focus on the benefits and factors that make up high-quality relationships between caregivers and parents and that achieve optimal outcomes for children in child-care settings.

This video is designed to provide child-care professionals with an understanding of the theory of attachment with linkages to research. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video promotes the value of a primary caregiving system for babies and toddlers and their parents. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video discusses careers in family day care. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This series portrays the theory and practice of child care for babies and toddlers at the Lady Gowrie Center in Adelaide, Australia. Available in DVD and VHS formats. Includes: Manuals

This video series was developed as a satellite broadcast course for students and professionals in child development and nutrition, child care providers, Head Start staff, dietitians, food-service workers, or anyone who trains staff or parents on issues related to feeding children. (Continuing Education Credit (CEU's) and academic credit are available for this series. Please call 800-405-8942 for further information.)

This video seeks to help you organize your child care business, your home, and your day care day. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video deals with the importance of your relationship with your client families, including establishing a good foundation in pre-placement interviews, problem solving, and maintaining a positive and mutually supportive relationship. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This videotape looks at how children grow and develop, and at the caregiver's role in that process. It also looks at child guidance and working with children of different ages and stages of development. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video looks at caring for the caregiver, from resources that may be available in your community to effective ways of coping with the isolation and stress that can be part of providing family day care.

Available in DVD and VHS formats.

Teach children to take care of their bodies and health by integrating the latest techniques and information about early childhood nutrition. This curriculum contains pragmatic ideas and practical methods of educating children about how to live healthy, happy lives. 220 pages

In eleven vignettes, using spontaneous footage of children with their teachers, much of the focus in on challenges the children face. Observe the challenges that become catalysts for learning. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

Developmentally appropriate practice implies that teachers understand child development and individual uniqueness. This tape explores how teachers process all this information to come up with the best possible resolution for each situation. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video looks at the developmental sequence of early-literacy and literacy-promoting activities at home and in center-based environments. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

In this video the nutritional needs and choices of the growing child are integrated with the stages of development from conception through adolescence. The role of the family, nutritional concerns and influences are explored. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

Classroom scenes show various choices in child care and identify characteristics of quality care. As choices for early child care and education increase, so does the concern for quality programs for young children. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This documentary film was shot over the course of a year at a cooperative nursery school. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This book examines inclusive child care settings and explores strategies for caring for infants and toddlers both with and without disabilities. A range of topics are reviewed such as handling daily care activities, communicating with parents, and anticipating the actions and emotions of toddlers.

This book focuses on skills that enable the early childhood observer to make appropriate inferences and decisions based on objective observational data gathered in natural learning environments.

Helping Your Child Be a Better Learner helps parents understand that learning is more than ABCs and numbers, and suggests ways they can help their preschoolers develop skills they will need later in school.

In this video, parents and children are engaged in activities that encourage the development of literacy and teachers demonstrating techniques to support children in their growing understanding of print. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

Bedtime Struggles helps families establish bedtime routines and understand that bedtime is a process that starts before it is time to say "goodnight."

This guide outlines ten curriculum themes to enhance the skills of early-childhood English-language learners.

This comprehensive handbook addresses the issues involved when children are potty trained in child care as well as in the home.

This set for trainers and administrators introduces teaching staff to the complete Discovering Nature with Young Children curriculum (#91776) from the planning stage to its successful implementation. Includes: VHS with 232-page Trainer’s Guide

This video introduces the series and discusses the importance of culturally relevant programs in First Nations and Inuit (Native American) communities.

This book address the most difficult problems that teachers can face with their children and offers insights and strategies on how to respond in the best interest of children.

This book outlines methods for keeping records that provide a realistic picture of a child's interactions and experiences in the classroom.

The book offers guidelines for effective observation and strategies to help refine observation skills and transform observing into an essential component of teaching practices.

This video shows the variety of ways that reading opportunities are offered to children. Teachers demonstrate reading picture books, using flannel board stories, puppet plays, picture files, recipe charts, children dictating stories and much more. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This trainer's set is designed as a teacher’s aid to be used in conjunction with the Building Structures with Young Children curriculum (#91775). Includes: VHS with 232-page Trainer’s Guide

This collection of activities was developed for parent and provider inservice training as well as for interdisciplinary and discipline-specific preservice academic courses.

These English/Spanish Parent Handouts are part of the Learningames: The Abecedarian Curriculum.

Learningames is the early childhood curriculum developed for the Carolina Abecedarian Project. Includes: Book

This book, a companion to The Moon is Round, contains twenty-eight delightful rhymes to read to toddlers.