Extending the Dance in Infant and Toddler Caregiving: Enhancing Attachment and Relationships

by Carolyn P. Edwards and Helen Raikes

Book Overview

Secure attachment between child and parent is one of the most important factors in early learning and development--and for children in infant-toddler programs, teachers are a critical third partner in this relationship dance. That's why child care administrators and educators need this warm and practical program guide.

An in-depth blueprint for promoting attachment and relationships in early childhood settings, this book helps professional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557668590
• ISBN13: 9781557668592
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

A fine early learning tool

This blueprint for promoting attachment and relationships in early childhood settings provides professional caregivers and educators a fine key to developing nurturing relationships with kids. From promoting relationship-based programs that keep teachers and kids together to encouraging connections, this is a fine early learning tool.

An Appropriate Analogy For Infant/Toddler Caregiving

Even though INFANTS, TODDLERS, AND CAREGIVERS by Gonzalez-Mena & Eyer still stands as the definitive book on the youngest of young children, Raikes & Edwards' book takes the typical concepts in these special classrooms (parent/child interaction, parent/teacher interaction, continuity of care, etc.) and puts into the perspective of a dance. It's not a fast dance, but a slow, waltzy like movement in which the partners get use to each other at their own rate over time. It's an excellent way to view infant/toddler relations. I would definitely recommend checking this book out even if you decide not to buy it.