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Direct linkHonig, Alice Sterling – Early Childhood Today, 2004
Evolution has provided babies with wonderful ways to get the loving attention and care that they need from adults. When a baby is distressed, his cry is the most primitive and powerful tool for bringing help. By the time a baby is 2 or 3 months old, his dazzling smile and crooked grin evokes tenderness, smiles, and nurturance from adults who are…
Descriptors: Infants, Infant Behavior, Nonverbal Communication, Parent Child Relationship
Creating and Comprehending the Fantastic: A Case Study of a Child from Twenty to Thirty-Five Months.
Peer reviewedCrago, Maureen – Children's Literature in Education, 1993
Explores the recorded remarks of one infant female child related to children's books. Contrasts the "fantastic" statements spontaneously generated by the child with the ways in which she responded to animism and other "fantastic" conventions in picture books heard by her at the same ages. (HB)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cognitive Processes, Emergent Literacy, Fantasy
Peer reviewedHignett, William F. – Young Children, 1988
Discusses some of the problems that infants and toddlers experience in infant and toddler day care programs, and suggests four program features that are vital in aiding infants and toddlers in the early years of care. (BB)
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality
Peer reviewedO'Brien, Shirley J. – Childhood Education, 1992
Discusses how parents can discipline their children successfully. Distinguishes between punishment, permissiveness, and discipline. Provides parents with guidelines on positive steps in disciplining their children with practices that are appropriate to the child's age and developmental level, especially infants, toddlers, and preschool children.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Rearing, Discipline, Family Environment
Peer reviewedSzanton, Eleanor Stokes – Young Children, 2001
Discusses the values transmitted to infants and toddlers by a majority of Americans and by many early childhood education leaders. Points out how mainstream infant/toddler programs encourage the characteristics of individualism, independence, choice and exploration, initiative, equality, and expressiveness. Examines parents' role in infant/toddler…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Cultural Differences, Cultural Traits, Diversity (Student)
