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Our Parenting guide tries to answer a parent’s questions of how to raise a happy, healthy child in this modern world.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Beginning with Sigmund Freud, modern child development theories have changed the way that parents raise their children and the way that teachers teach those children. This video is an entertaining and enlightening view of the major child development theories, how the theories differ and how more than one approach can be beneficial. Historical footage and photos are combined with candid documentary footage from day care centers.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This film shows examples of event and time sampling techniques. Two children are filmed separately during their afternoon session at nursery school. There is a very quiet girl (3 years 9 months) and a boy (3 years 3 months) who seems often to be at the center of disruptions. This material is used to demonstrate the two observational techniques and is to be used with the accompanying notes. A time and an event sample observation is shown for each child....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From the time they are born, human beings are predisposed to learn and enjoy music. Children especially are open to it, and research increasingly has shown that exposure to music and especially participation in making it - by singing and playing simple percussion instruments - is invaluable in helping childrens brains develop the - neural bridges - that make them stronger.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Children learn language without much help at all – and yet teachers and schools can play a vital role in helping their students develop critical linguistic skills. This program addresses both the development of language, and the ways in which its acquisition can be enhanced by skilled educators. Viewers will learn how early communication (cries, gestures and sounds) gradually grows into a spoken language that allows a child to explain herself to...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
During middle childhood - the period between ages 6 and 12 - children reach many critical milestones. In fact, teacher and caregiver responses during this time of significant change can dramatically affect a child's physical, cognitive, social, and emotional growth, both immediately and in the future. At this stage, children grow physically, gain body awareness, and form lifelong habits that affect their health and well-being. At the same time, their...
8) Vermont kids
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1975 John Marshall and Roger Hart documented the outdoor play activities of the children in a small Vermont town. Roger had just completed his dissertation from Clark University on the geography of children. John's 13 hours of 16mm footage comprised part of his detailed research on children's outdoor lives, studying the role of play in children's psychological development as well as its relationship to their understanding of nature...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Learning, playing and learning through play are complex issues that we have tried to simplify and explain with this film. It shows learning taking place through self chosen, enjoyable activities. By following one boy for a year (from his third to his fourth birthday) we see clearly how his development and learning are progressed through his rich play experiences. He is seen playing at home indoors and out and sometimes at his playgroup. He plays on...
Author
Publisher
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Draws on the author's Positive Parenting Solutions online course to explain how to correct negative behaviors in children, introducing the psychological theories of Alfred Adler on using empowerment to promote healthy child development.
11) Pretend play
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This consists of source material of children's pretend play featuring children from 20 months to 7 years. The 11 sequences can be used individually for observation. Also, as they are presented chronologically by age, they clearly show the developmental stages of pretend play. Sequences show learning taking place in all major areas, physical, cognitive, language, social, emotional and creative. There is also a good opportunity for discussion of gender...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Physical play is the first type of play to emerge but also the least researched and most neglected by educators. However this is rapidly changing as educators realize just how vital it is from many points of view. Inbuilt psychological drives mean that children want to be able to do things for themselves and physical play leads to children becoming adept at using their bodies. Being motivated to succeed at tasks is an important factor in effective...
Author
Publisher
Hua xue gong ye
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
After having her classmates walk away from her during a soccer game at recess because she hogs the ball, is bossy, and cares only about winning, Sally gets some good advice from her teacher and her mother. Includes note to parents.
Author
Publisher
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Cure your kids of the entitlement epidemic so they develop happier, more productive attitudes that will carry them into a successful adulthood. Whenever Amy McCready mentions the "entitlement epidemic" to a group of parents, she is inevitably met with eye rolls, nodding heads, and loaded comments about affected children. It seems everywhere one looks there are preschoolers who only behave in the grocery store for a treat, narcissistic teenagers...
Author
Publisher
Picador, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Caring deeply about our children is part of what makes us human. Yet the thing we call 'parenting' is a surprisingly new invention. In the past thirty years, the concept of parenting and the multibillion dollar industry surrounding it have transformed child care into obsessive, controlling, and goal-oriented labor intended to create a particular kind of child and therefore a particular kind of adult. In The Gardener and the Carpenter, the pioneering...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Esther Wojcicki--"Woj" to her many friends and admirers--is famous for three things: teaching a high school class that has changed the lives of thousands of kids, inspiring Silicon Valley legends like Steve Jobs, and raising three daughters who have each become famously successful. What do these three accomplishments have in common? They're the result of TRICK, Woj's secret to raising successful people: Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
How can we tell if a child is developing normally in its first two years? Learn some of the basic developmental milestones in physical growth, personal and social skills, large and small motor skills and language acquisition. Discover when to seek professional help to assess development, especially for potential problems in hearing and vision. Understand that speech is the most variable area of development. Learn to recognise key motor skill developments....
Author
Series
Chang xiao jing xuan volume 77
Publisher
Shi chao chu ban you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
中文(繁體)
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