| Connected Beginnings Training Institute | Nurturing the Social and Emotional Well-Being of Children Ages Birth to Five

For optimal development "a child requires progressively more complex joint activity with one or more adults who have an irrational emotional relationship with the child. Somebody’s got to be crazy about that kid. That’s number one. First, last, and always." – Urie Bronfrenbrener
“Including parents in the screening process tells parents from the start that you value their observations, questions and concerns. And the cliché is true-parents in most cases are the best source of reliable and valid information about a child’s development.” – Elizabeth Twombley
“Through relationships with parents and other significant caregivers, infants and toddlers learn what people expect of them and what they can expect of other people. Infants and toddlers learn through what they experience within relationships and what they observe in adults’ interactions with one another.” — Pathways to Prevention
“What’s critical then is the interaction between genetics and what we call ‘serve and return’ between young children and the adults in their lives. The child does something and the adult responds. It’s the back and forth that literally, shapes the architecture of the brain.” — Jack Shonkoff
“Children are not the people of tomorrow but the people of today. They have a right to be taken seriously and to be treated with tenderness and respect. They should be allowed to grow into whoever they were meant to be-the unknown person inside each of them is our hope for the future.” – Janusz Korczak

President Obama’s Child Care Proposal

In his latest State of the Union address, President Obama made some strong statements regarding early child care in America, including making it affordable. Read more here: http://eyeonearlyeducation.com/2015/01/26/president-obamas-child-care-proposal/

The Raising of America: Early childhood and the future of our nation

This documentary series, set to debut early in 2015 on PBS, has been developed as a further exploration into the root causes of class and racial inequalities in health. With a focus set on the impact of society and policy on the earliest years of life, The Raising of America seeks to deepen the conversation on the evidence and urgency for investment in improving outcomes for all of America’s children.

http://raisingofamerica.org/documentary

Worthy Work, STILL Unlivable Wages: The early childhood workforce 25 years after the National Child Care Staffing Study (Whitebrook, Phillips, & Howes)

Revisiting the 1989 landmark study on the poverty-level wages of early childhood staff, the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at UC Berkeley has brought the data up-to-date and with it, a renewed energy to the cause of worthy wages for worthy work.

http://www.irle.berkeley.edu/cscce/2014/report-worthy-work-still-unlivable-wages/

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The Raising of America: Early childhood and the future of our nation

Worthy Work, STILL Unlivable Wages: The early childhood workforce 25 years after the National Child Care Staffing Study (Whitebrook, Phillips, & Howes)

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