Issues Related to Excellence and Equity in the Early Childhood Field

 

 

How-To: 5 Steps for Brain-Building Serve and Return

These steps and a short video can be found on http://developing.harvard.edu/resources/how-to 5-steps-for-brain-building-serve-and-return 

1. Share the focus

2. Support & Encourage

3. Name it!

4. Take turns, back and fourth

5. Practice ending and beginnings 

Simple serve and return interactions between adults and young children help make strong connections in developing brains.

Play in Early Childhood: The Role of Play in Any Setting

http://developingchild.haravad.edu/the-role-of-play-any-setting

1. Supporting responsive relationship: Promote play with family and their children. Teaching parents how to play with their child.

2. Strengthening Core Life Skills: Planning skills, problem solving, taking turns. (create environment into play)

3. Reducing Sources of Stress: Engaging in play stress is reduce. -Play can be a therapeutic intervention. 

What is COVID-19? And How Does It Relate to Child Development?

http://developingchild.harvard.edu/How-does-it-realte-to-child-development

This article talks about COVID-19 affects the children and the family. Covid-19 It is important for us to keep our distance from one another (physically)  and also stay connected to the people we care about. Some ways are: video chatting, saying hello to a neighbor that is 6ft or more away.  These connections can make stress feel easier to bear,

Also taking a minute to close your eyes and breathe in and out can help. Because slow breathing tells your body's stress system to ease up. This can help you response better at even the most difficult times. 

I found these three articles/video clip very interesting. It really makes the material very easy to understand. I love the way that all three can connect with each other. And in the way the culture has changed since COVID-19, we now more than every have to make those bonds with children through play more now than ever. 

References

http://developingchild.harvard.edu/about/what-we-do/global-work

http://developingchild.harvard.edu/how-does-it-relate-to-child-development