Summary: Spotlighting techniques provided by parents, teachers, and childcare professionals, this program features helpful strategies for early childhood education. Topics include the importance of art, science projects in the home, integrating math activities, and learning through building with blocks. Hosted by former schoolteacher and veteran mom Debi Gutierrez.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Using approaches from parents, teachers, and childcare providers, this program presents reliable methods for addressing childhood emotions and behavior problems. Topics include conflict resolution, self-control, tantrums, positive discipline, separation anxiety, sharing, self-esteem, emotional concepts, temperament, and overcoming isolation. Several activities are illustrated. Hosted by former...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: As children begin school and other new experiences, what happens to the values, behavior, and expectations they have learned at home? Why do so many young people follow the crowd? And when does conformity become a bad thing? This program explores those questions, visiting a group of 25 seven-year-olds who are learning to cope with peer groups and situations. Children and parents are given tasks...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Focusing on techniques suggested by parents, teachers, and childcare professionals, this program features strategies for dealing with emotional and behavioral challenges in young children. The primary topic is encouraging friendships, while several activities designed to channel aggression and address frustrations are also included. Hosted by former schoolteacher and veteran mom Debi Gutierrez.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: If we're all born with creative potential, why do many children lose their inventive tendencies as they grow older? What role does organized education play? This program observes a group of 25 seven-year-olds and their families in order to study childhood creativity, why it frequently fades, and why it matters. Exploring the impact of school and whether or not it dampens the creative impulse,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Using ideas from parents, teachers, and childcare providers, this program presents down-to-earth methods for effective early childhood education. Topics include creating a print-rich environment, making story time a regular practice, encouraging writing skills, implementing literacy activities, and fostering language development. Hosted by former schoolteacher and veteran mom Debi Gutierrez.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Why do boys underachieve? How does celebrity culture influence the self-esteem of young girls? In an atmosphere dominated by sex and consumerism, are children growing up too quickly? This program addresses those issues, reporting on a group of 25 eight-year-olds as they adjust to gender roles and expectations. Nathan's parents have gone all out to make sure he grows up without stereotypes-but...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: One in three children arrives in kindergarten unprepared for the challenges of school. Hosted by former teacher Debi Gutierrez, this program presents information and insights that will help in the care and education of young children with special needs. Topics include recognizing and understanding special needs, speech and language delays, hearing and visual impairments, and autism. The program...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: What are the consequences of bullying, high-stakes testing, homework overload, and family turmoil? Do these experiences prepare kids for an uncertain life ahead or are they too much, too young? This program explores what happens under the stressful conditions that children often face at home and school. Tracking a group of 25 eight-year-olds, the program follows young subjects through academic,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: What shapes a child's identity-situation and surroundings, or unchangeable factors within the child? This program weighs in on that question by capturing the emotional and psychological development of 25 boys and girls at age five. In fascinating and sometimes disturbing scenes, the children reveal clear signals about their self-worth and their expectations for the future that bear strong...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006