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The most important toy or activity for infants and
toddlers is us: mommies, daddies, and caregivers.
Among other topics, we will spend time in ECE 22 learning
how to choose developmentally appropriate activities and toys for infants
and toddlers. An excellent article on play,
The Importance of Play in Promoting Healthy Child Development
and Maintaining Strong Parent-Child Bonds , is available online. This is
a scholarly article, but well worth the time to study.
For all children under the age of seven, play is learning
and learning is playing. Many parents are struggling with the bombardment of
teaching "academics" to their infants and toddlers. As child development
professionals, we have a responsibility to assist and educate parents in the
importance of play. A beautiful article,
Play: It's the Way Young
Children Learn, is available as a handout for parents. There is
additional comprehensive information on play and learning at the
Action Alliance for Children.
Their information is available in English, Spanish, and Chinese.
There are also many excellent free resources at the
Zero to Three
website. After you register, be sure to explore all the pamphlets and ideas
in the
Play
section. Because we will be discussing the slide shows on this web page in
class, you may want to print them for your notes.
The handouts below are assignments and ideas you may
find helpful for our class:
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