Guidance of Young Children emphasizes understanding young children’s development in addition to promoting positive child guidance and management strategies. The text encourages you to think critically and make intentional, informed decisions that positively impact the children in your care.

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PART I: GUIDING YOUNG CHILDREN: THREE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS
1. A Teacher's Role in Guiding Children
2. Theoretical Foundations of Child Guidance
3. Understand Child Development: A Key to Guiding Children Effectively

PART II: “DIRECT" AND “INDIRECT" CHILD GUIDANCE
4. Supportive Physical Environments: Indirect Guidance
5. Positive Guidance and Discipline Strategies: Direct Guidance
6. Using Observation in Guiding Children

PART III: SPECIAL TOPICS IN CHILD GUIDANCE
7. Self-Esteem and the Moral Self
8. Feelings and Friends: Emotional and Social Competence
9. Resilience and Stress in Childhood
10. Aggression and Bullying in Young Children
11. Minimizing Challenging Behavior

PART IV: APPLY YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF CHILD GUIDANCE
12. Apply Your Knowledge: Guiding Children during Routines and Transitions
13. Apply Your Knowledge: Use the Decision-Making Model of Child Guidance

Appendix: Review: Major Positive Discipline Strategies