In an article for the ECEBC Early Child Educator, Dr. Mariana Brussoni talks about the current “unprecedented curtailing of children’s outdoor and risky play that is already impacting children’s health and development …. When we try to limit children’s risky play, we rob them of these fundamental opportunities, which ironically, could result in them being less safe.”
Read MoreHarvard University’s Filming Interactions to Nurture Development (FIND) program uses video coaching to strengthen positive interaction between caregivers and children. It uses select clips of adults engaging with children to reinforce developmentally supportive interactions, known as “serve and return”, developing skills by building on caregivers’ existing strengths and capabilities.
Read MoreThe Langley Infant Mental Health collaborative has produced a public awareness campaign, Talk to Me, Play with Me, Carry Me - #mywellbeingstartswithyou designed to increase parents’ and caregivers’ awareness of the importance that simple everyday interactions can have on the wellbeing and mental health of their baby.
Read MoreZero to Three have produced an online resource A Year of Play to encourage parents to browse and find fun seasonal activities that promote child development through interactive play.
Read MoreA BC Council for Families blog, by April Martin-Ko looks at the benefits of self-directed, self-chosen, imaginative play for children and outlines its impacts on child development.
Read MoreA new UBC study on Parental Awareness of Screen Time Recommendations for Children Less Than Two Years of Age looks at parents’ awareness of the Canadian Paediatric Society’s recommendations issued last year and real-life screen time usage by infants and toddlers.
Read MoreOn March 16, 2018, $10aDay Child Care posted a review of the B.C. Budget 2018 investment in child care on their website, welcoming the progress towards the key recommendations of the $10aDay Plan.
Read MoreHeart Mind Online have produced a three-minute emotional literacy video featuring an early childhood educator using books that express an emotional arc in order to help pre-school children learn to identify their feelings and relate to feelings in others.
Read MoreDeveloped as part of the three-year BC Provincial Domestic Violence Plan, with collaboration amongst various ministries and community organizations, Early Childhood Exposure to Domestic Violence: You Can Help, is a recently-released toolkit designed for use by individuals working with children in the 0-5 age range.
Read MoreThe Hand in Hand: Growing Together Every Day family of resources provides activities and tips for caregivers to support social and emotional development during the early years, through the creation of a plan that is unique to the child and family. The toolkit includes a series of useful handout sheets for caregivers to assist in fostering.
Read MoreBuilding Connection: Supporting Community-Based Programs to Address Interpersonal Violence and Child Maltreatment is a detailed, practical toolkit produced by Mothercraft with funding from the Public Health Agency of Canada to provide support to CAPC, CPNP and AHSUNC programs in their work with mothers and children experiencing the effects of Interpersonal Violence (IPV).
Read MoreIn this short video, members of the HELP Aboriginal Steering Committee reflect on the Middle Years Development Instrument and the power of children’s voices.
Read MoreThe American Association for the Advancement of Science focused on new child development research at its February 2017 meeting, looking at ways to address the “word gap” for at-risk children that has been identified as a challenge to school readiness.
Read MoreIn this factsheet, “8 Things to Remember About Child Development”, featured in the From Best Practices to Breakthrough Impacts report, the Center on the Developing Child sets out a group of key issues around early child development.
Read MoreThe respected medical journal, The Lancet, has published a groundbreaking series on early child development, “Advancing Early Childhood Development from Science to Scale.” The 3-part series argues that the growing social and economic costs to nations of under-investment in prenatal and early childhood development are unsustainable. In their review of a wide range of international programs, the findings demonstrate that the best results combine what's known as "nurturing" care with basic health, nutrition, and cognitive programs.
Read MoreECE professionals and primary school teachers in the Comox Valley are working collaboratively to facilitate children’s school entry. Read more about the tools and supports they have created to facilitate this significant transition point in the lives of children in their community.
Read MoreFor everyone located in BC, free access is now available to a range of online educational ECD resources through the Science of Early Child Development (SECD) project, in partnership with the BC Provincial Government.
Read MoreThe $10aday childcare campaign is currently running a petition and is planning a week of action at the beginning of March.
Read MoreA number of schools in BC, Ontario and the Yukon are involved in the first wave of the Canadian Self-Regulation Initiative, designed to increase children’s capacity to meet life’s challenges and rise to life’s potential.
Read MoreAn article on “Why We Should Teach Empathy to Preschools” from the mindful website looks at the Golestan school in Berkeley founded by an Iranian educator whose commitment to empathy training was inspired by her own experience of bullying at school as a new immigrant when she was 9 years old. Click here to learn more and to access a simple tool offering four regular practices for reinforcement of empathy in children.
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