Why Relationships Are So Important
for Healthy Development
Relationship-building describes the process of establishing emotional connections with others, starting from birth, which are based on trust and intimacy. Through relationships, children discover who they are and learn to understand others. When young children experience people helping, understanding, and enjoying them, they approach the world with openness and enthusiasm, and they grow to be responsive and caring people.
Babies are born with a drive to relate to and connect with others, and they continue to develop the social skills necessary to form strong, healthy relationships throughout their lives. -- National Center for Infants, Toddlers & Families
Babies are born with a drive to relate to and connect with others, and they continue to develop the social skills necessary to form strong, healthy relationships throughout their lives. -- National Center for Infants, Toddlers & Families
One of the most essential experiences in shaping the architecture of the developing brain is "serve and return" interaction between children and significant adults in their lives. Young children naturally reach out for interaction through babbling, facial expressions, and gestures, and adults respond with the same kind of vocalizing and gesturing back at them. This back-and-forth process is fundamental to the wiring of the brain, especially in the earliest years. -- Center on the Developing Child
The Creative Curriculum: Parent Connection
Developing partnerships with families is an essential part of any high-quality early childhood program. When teachers and families work together, children’s development and learning is fully supported.
That’s why Teaching Strategies created an entire category of family resources that are completely devoted to helping early childhood teachers build those essential bridges between a child’s two most important worlds: school and home. Teaching Strategies’ supportive family connection resources make it much easier to find solutions for effectively engaging families.
From engaging LearningGames® to parent guides on a variety of subjects, these send-home resources will help to extend and foster children’s development and learning. Also, newly-added resources for parent education, including Parenting Counts print products and online training, offer support that can be provided to parents to help bridge the gap between school and home. -- Teaching Strategies: The Creative Curriculum
PARENT GUIDES:
That’s why Teaching Strategies created an entire category of family resources that are completely devoted to helping early childhood teachers build those essential bridges between a child’s two most important worlds: school and home. Teaching Strategies’ supportive family connection resources make it much easier to find solutions for effectively engaging families.
From engaging LearningGames® to parent guides on a variety of subjects, these send-home resources will help to extend and foster children’s development and learning. Also, newly-added resources for parent education, including Parenting Counts print products and online training, offer support that can be provided to parents to help bridge the gap between school and home. -- Teaching Strategies: The Creative Curriculum
PARENT GUIDES:
- Building Your Child's Brain
- Helping Your Child Learn Two Languages
- Math Right From the Start
- Our Program for Infants & Toddlers
- Physical Activity Right From the Start
- Reading Right From the Start