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Children depend upon the adults in their life to provide a consistent, loving environment that promotes healthy attachment. The environment must be predictable and nurturing and must support exploration.

The process of learning self-control and self-discipline is linked very closely with how a child feels about themselves and their relationship to the world. It's important that we help build and strengthen children's ability to determine for themselves what's right and wrong, and how to control their own behavior.

People who have experienced or witnessed a tragic event such as a mass shooting are acutely affected, and even those who have knowledge of the event are affected in some way. Simply being aware of a national tragedy can have an impact on psychological coping responses for up to 6 months after the event (Silver et al., 2002).

The way you communicate with your students' families effects positive interaction between you and the children in your care. And, the way in which you interact with parents, can affect the extent and quality of their involvement with their children's learning at home.

A set of measures have been developed based on the Whole Teacher approach to professional development. These tools have been used in past and current early education research projects to examine the impact of the Collaborative's professional development programs on teachers' attitudes, knowledge, and practice.

As caregivers, your job is to encourage children to think about how people are alike and different, to ask all kinds of questions, and to find answers they can understand. Your words and attitude tell children that differences are wonderful.

Nap time can be a tough time for teachers (and sometimes for children, too). In this video, Deborah Stewart of Teach Preschool offers tips, encouragement, and great advice to make nap times successful for teachers and students.

For child care providers, colder weather means it's time for them to prepare for plenty of germs that can spread among children and staff quickly.

Learning to speak is an essential milestone in the development of any child. The spoken language allows children to express their emotions and needs. And for teachers and caregivers, figuring out how to help young children in their care develop language skills, may be more of a difficult task than you think.

If you're an early childhood educator looking for resources to help you enhance your classroom, look no further than these 10 must read early childhood education blogs.