Parent education/family strengthening : First Steps effective practices report
The intent of this paper is to briefly describe the families whose children are likely to be assessed as “not ready for school” and the prevalent parent education/family strengthening programs funded through South Carolina’s First Steps to School Readiness initiative as documented with Program Effectiveness Reports and the Planning, Implementation and Evaluation documents which provide the basis for all the South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness data used in this report. Additionally, this paper will highlight the association between recommended best practice found in research and the current characteristics and activities of the South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness funded programs and relate this information in a way that programs and practices might use to strengthen their efforts to empower and change parents, families and children.
The Irreducible Needs Of Children: What Every Child Must Have To Grow, Learn, And Flourish
For this book Dr. Brazelton, America's premier pediatrician, has teamed up with the renowned child psychiatrist, Dr. Stanley Greenspan, to delineate the basic needs of children. They find this to be necessary since they find little in the way of basic research on so essential a topic. They hope that once there are agreedupon irreducible needs, then there will be less debate about what children need and more action towards meeting those needs for all children. The authors argue that children’s needs are often unmet even in the wealthiest of nations. Brazelton and Greenspan begin by defining seven irreducible needs and then devote a chapter to each. They take the unusual step of splitting each chapter into three parts: the first part presents an essay on the subject, the second presents a dialog between the two physicians as they present their own perspectives and experiences regarding the subject, and the third presents a summation of their recommendations. The irreducible need they place before all others is "The Need for Ongoing Nurturing Relationships." They assert that human beings are emotional beings, especially when young. Therefore, it is the emotions through which human infants "learn" higher reasoning and problem solving.
Schools and Families: Issues and Actions
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