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Infant Sleep: A Review of Normative and Problematic Sleep and Interventions
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Middlemiss, Wendy – Early Child Development and Care, 2004
Providing families with information about infant sleep can positively impact parents' well-being and infants' sleep habits. Few parents receive professionally based information about sleep, perhaps due to contradictory information found in the literature. This review summarizes: (1) normative sleep patterns for infants; (2) factors that affect…
Descriptors: Infants, Sleep, Intervention, Psychological Patterns
A Mentor Manual: For Adults Who Work with Pregnant and Parenting Teens.
Kanfer, Frederick H.; Englund, Susan; Lennhoff, Claudia; Rhodes, Jean – 1995
Intended for adults working with expectant and new teen mothers, this guide provides techniques and strategies for helping the teen mother develop skills needed to achieve parenting and life goals. The first half of the guide explores the relationship between the adult mentor and teen parent, and steps toward problem solving and positive change.…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adolescents, Adults, Change Strategies
The Clay Boat Project: Floating and Sinking Studies with Infants
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Ward, Alan – School Science Review, 1978
Describes how infants of six to seven years old can learn floating and sinking. The work described in this article was inspired by the Elementary Science Study (ESS). (HM)
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Infants
Research in Review. Compliance, Control and Discipline.
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Honig, Alice S. – Young Children, 1985
Discusses research which shows the development of compliance in infants and young children. Describes the relationships between compliance and attachment to parents, childrearing style, timing and setting of control techniques, and development of self-control and problem-solving abilities. Discusses the importance of mother-child relationships for…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Rearing, Cooperation, Discipline
Working Together: Communication Skills for Parents, Caregivers, and Other Professionals. A Series for Caregivers of Infants and Toddlers. Model for Interdisciplinary Training for Children with Handicaps: MITCH Module 11.
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Monroe County School District, Key West, FL. – 1990
Intended for use in Florida training programs for caregivers of infants and toddlers with disabilities, this guide presents an overview of the Model of Interdisciplinary Training for Children with Handicaps (MITCH); offers a user's guide to the series; and provides specific information for presenting Module 11, which focuses on communication…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Day Care
The Infant & Toddler Handbook: Invitations for Optimum Early Development. Revised.
Castle, Kathryn – 1994
Noting that care and teaching can be provided simultaneously by a knowledgeable, responsive, warm and loving parent or child care workers, this infant and toddler handbook provides developmentally sequenced cognitive, social, motor, and language activities, called "invitations," for infants and toddlers from birth to 24 months. Chapter 1,…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Caregiver Role, Child Development, Classroom Environment
Innovations: Infant and Toddler Development.
Albrecht, Kay; Miller, Linda G. – 2001
This book provides teachers of infants and toddlers with an in-depth guide to infant and toddler development, theories of growth and development, and best practices in early childhood education. The chapters are: (1) "Innovations: Infant and Toddler Development," looking at the underlying principles of developmental and interactional…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Caregivers, Child Development