Full Description
SAFETY, NUTRITION, AND HEALTH IN EARLY EDUCATION, Sixth Edition, uses theory, practical applications, and resources to prepare readers for a career in working with children from birth to age eight in multicultural and socioeconomically diverse early childhood settings. This book emphasizes healthy development, including environmental health and safety, active supervision, and how issues surrounding safety, nutrition, health, child maltreatment, and mental and emotional health can affect brain development. It also fully integrates NAEYC, DAP, and AAP/APHA professional standards throughout, and includes strategies for how to engage diverse families from various backgrounds and beliefs, and also those whose children have special needs.
Contents
Section I1. A Holistic Environmental Approach to Healthy Development in Early Childhood Education. 2. Creating Safe Environments.3. Indoor Safety.4. Outdoor Safety.5. Emergency Response Procedures.6. Basic Nutrition for Children.7. Protecting Good Nutrition for Healthy Development.8. Providing Good Nutrition for Diverse Children.9. Meal Planning and Food Safety.10. Tools for Promoting Good Health in Children.11. Prevention of Illness through Infection Control.12. Promoting Wellness through Supportive Health Care.13. Providing for Special Health Care Needs.HEALTH.14. Child Maltreatment.15. Fostering Good Mental Health and Emotional Well-Being in Children.Glossary. References.Index.
