Summary

Numerous revisions make Positive Child Guidance 5E more developmentally appropriate, culturally sensitive, and academically sound. Positive Child Guidance 5E equips teachers to guide, manage, and cope with children's behavior while making sense of children's efforts to understand their own emerging needs and feelings while handling adult expectations. This text is laden with poignant and humorous anecdotes of adults working with children. Open-ended solutions encourage students to engage in higher levels of thinking, analyzing, and synthesizing. Positive Child Guidance, 5E outlines workable methods for preventing or redirecting inappropriate behaviors and helping children grow up to be useful citizens in a democratic social structure. This revised text addresses how the cultural differences of children, parents, and early childhood educators affect day-to-day guidance. This book outlines practical, workable steps for creating a cooperative, respectful community of children and adults with special emphasis on sensitivity to cultural and gender-based needs and differences.