Guiding Behavior Set

Navigating the behaviors and emotional needs of the children in your care can be challenging, but having the right tools on hand can make you more prepared to give the most responsive care available. This collection of books will give you a well-rounded grasp of best practices when dealing with the biggest moods of the littlest people. Save 20% when you order them together in this set.

Beyond Behavior Management 2nd Edition

All children—not just those with challenging behaviors—require guidance as they develop the social and emotional skills they will use the rest of their lives. This resource provides everything you need to help children build and use six essential life skills: attachment, belonging, self-regulation, collaboration, contribution, and adaptability. Developed and tested in the classroom, this strength-based approach includes strategies, examples of supportive interactions, and special activities to help you manage challenging behaviors and strengthen social and emotional development in all children. Reflecting significant changes in early childhood education, this second edition of Beyond Behavior Management aligns each life skill with early learning standards and addresses cultural awareness and its impact on child development. With these essential life skills, children will exhibit more prosocial behaviors, work better as a classroom community, and become excited and active learners.

This edition includes two new chapters and content reflecting early learning standards, new research, cultural diversity, and strategies to strengthen the home-school connection. Discussion and reflection questions, exercises, journal assignments, child profile templates, a planning worksheet, and sample scripts are also included.

336 pages

Supporting Positive Behavior [workbook]

The foundation for positive behavior begins before a child enters the classroom. Properly preparing the environment can help young children make good behavioral choices from the moment they walk through the door. Learn to use age appropriate design to promote engagement, encourage exploration, and allow for movement. This easy to use workbook also teaches you to create routines that allow children to make good choices, assess whether your expectations of the children are appropriate, and be proactive in preventing behavior issues. 80 pages.

Responding to Behavior [workbook]

Children learn what is acceptable and what is not by testing the behavioral boundaries. One of the most important goals in the early childhood classroom is helping children learn appropriate social norms and self-control. Even with an environment and routine to promote positive behavior, children will make inappropriate choices. Discover ways to model good choices for children and use positive classroom management to help children develop appropriate behavior. 80 pages.

Guiding Challenging Behavior

You may be the first to notice a child who is struggling with behavior. What do you do to help the child succeed? This user-friendly workbook guides you through the process of supporting children with challenging behavior. Learn how to assess the situation and the behavior, document patterns of behavior, and share your concerns. Tips and tools for getting the support of parents, realizing your own limits, and for determining if your program is the best fit for the child’s needs. 80 pages.

When Young Children Need Help

You know what it's like to spend time with youngsters who are particularly puzzling or hard to help. When Young Children Need Help helps early childhood educators make sense of what is going on for such children and use that understanding to promote growth and mastery. Written for child care center staff, family child care providers, preschool teachers, and pre-service teachers, this book is useful for any reader who wants to reach the most troubling children in his or her care. This engaging book encourages a collaborative approach and emphasizes that even when a child needs outside services and supports, what goes on in school or in care remains central to making progress. When Young Children Need Help offers its perspectives and strategies through highly readable stories that bring children with challenges alive in all their quirky uniqueness.

306 pages

Behavioral Challenges, Revised Edition

Young children's behavior can be challenging at times but handling it doesn't have to be. This guide has information on how to respond to an array of common behavioral challenges, prevention tips, and updated resources. This Redleaf Quick Guide is filled with information on 12 common behavioral challenges and 36 new strategies on how to respond.

61 pages

No Biting 3rd Edition

Biting is an issue that is more than skin-deep. It can affect any toddler in any setting and can have developmental, emotional, or environmental causes. An “unfortunately not unexpected” occurrence among toddlers, biting is more than a physical act. It is a serious, complicated issue that brings frustration to the biter, bitee, parents, and child care providers. This book offers technique-building advice for approaching biting in ways that work effectively for everyone involved.

No Biting, Third Edition, is expanded and updated with chapters that include consultation and technical assistance on biting for infant-toddler specialists and a ready-to-use teacher training curriculum, organized into eight short training modules.

Perhaps no other concern in toddler programs challenges teachers and parents as much as biting does. This how-to handbook helps you work through biting with successful strategies and trusted guidance.

200 pages

Problem Solving with Young Children

Turn everyday frustrations into teachable moments.Young children encounter problems, mistakes, and accidents that challenge them daily. Helping children conquer everyday frustrations fosters the creativity, critical thinking, and resilience that enables children to thrive in a formidable world. Problem-Solving with Young Children will coach early childhood teachers, child care providers, and parents to develop a range of strategies to help young children become creative problem solvers, including:

• Questions to ask
• Ways to listen
• Strategies for brainstorming and trying solutions
• Suggestions for using the scientific method or design thinking to test ideas
• Methods for reflecting on what worked and what still needs improvement

See what children learn along the way -- the social skills, emotional intelligence, language and communication skills, and STEM skills that evolve as children participate in an authentic, meaningful problem-solving process.

Featuring anecdotes and advice, and incorporating research on how children learn, emergent curriculum methods, problem-based learning, developmentally appropriate practices, and responsive pedagogies, this book will help you lead children through meaningful problem-solving processes and prepare tomorrow’s critical thinkers.

152 Pages