Provides an overview of nutrition, health, and safety that emphasizes their interrelationship and the influences of heredity and the environment on each. Part 1 discusses food patterns and how they form, basic facts about nutrients, and guidelines for healthful eating. Part 2 contains chapters on growth and development and nutrition influences on this process as well as chapters on the nutritional needs of infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and children with special nutritional needs. Part 3 contains chapters on general health policies and procedures in the child care setting and on infectious diseases affecting children. Also discusses safety concerns, including providing safe environments for young children and teaching and practicing behaviors that promote children's safety. Part 4 provides general guidance on teaching children about nutrition, health and safety. Contains a chapter on curriculum with advice on lesson planning and a chapter on ways to involve parents in the nutrition, health and safety program.

This book provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the nutrition, health, and safety needs of young children from birth through 8 years of age. The book is designed to give future teachers practical, applied, easy-to-understand information that will prepare them to serve young children in the family child care, childcare center, preschool and early primary school setting. Students will find the case scenarios woven throughout the chapters engaging and an effective means to transfer the learning of concepts to real life settings. This transfer of learning is reinforced by web video clips available at the MyEducationlab website that bring what students read and learn to life.

A comprehensive overview of the nutrition, health, and safety needs of young children from birth through school age. Nutrition, Health, and Safety for Young Children: Promoting Wellness, 2/e, prepares future educators to implement healthful practices and teach young children ways to contribute to their own wellness. Anecdotes, cases, authentic examples, and a storytelling approach helps situate wellness concepts for readers, promote thinking about professional situations, and offer a glimpse into the everyday classroom experience diverse populations of young children in family child care, child care centers, preschools, and elementary school settings. Streamlined throughout to include only 16 chapters, the text still covers the wide range of situations and challenges that teachers of young children are facing today. New to this edition: Chapters were merged and material has been streamlined throughout in order to present the information in 16 chapters, better supporting course organization. New contributing articles, written by early childhood professionals from across the country, describe Progressive Programs & Practices that they have implemented to address issues and concerns in their communities. Important nutrition updates are presented including the USDA MyPlate approach for planning healthy meals, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (2010 version) and information about the to the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, and the important changes to the school lunch program to that reflect current evidenced based practices for feeding young children. Discussion of health practices is enhanced to address current childhood health issues and classroom management of children s health needs. Safety chapters reflect recently revised practices including more focus on emergency preparedness, new strategies for implementing cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and expanded discussion of child maltreatment and violence in children s lives. New to this edition, provocative A Matter of Ethics scenarios challenge students to consider professional practices and explore how teachers are guided by a professional code of behavior. New ideas are provided for teaching wellness concepts to children with special developmental needs and those who are learning English to ensure that all children have the opportunity to learn healthy practices. Revised Chapter 1, Your Role in Children s Wellness, establishes the importance of integrating nutrition, health, and safety concepts throughout professional teaching and in the daily curriculum. "

Early childhood educators are responsible for the health and safety of the children they care for. From preventing harm from known safety risks to promoting children's medical, nutritional, oral, and mental health, educators and program directors act as children's daily protection and support. This easy-to-use manual provides educators with the information they need to ensure that the children in their care stay safe while they are learning the best practices to stay healthy for life.

"Working with children in today's world can be challenging. Children's lives have changed a great deal in the past few decades as divorce rates, the number of single-parent families, the immigrant population, and the number of parents in the work force needing care for their children are all on the rise. Families are much more diverse, and the issues some of them face are difficult and can affect their children's lives. Safety, Nutrition, and Health in Early Education includes vital information for those who work with children from newborns to age eight and addresses the challenges they may encounter in today's diverse world." -- Preface (xvii).

Note: This is the loose-leaf version of Nutrition, Health and Safety for Young Children and does not include access to the Enhanced Pearson eText. To order the Enhanced Pearson eText packaged with the loose-leaf version, use 0134403266. This practical, comprehensive text helps students understand the interrelationships among nutrition, health, and safety, and gives them strategies to share their knowledge with children and their families. Covering the full range of childhood from birth into school age, it includes concrete, common in-text examples, case scenarios, and questions that promote thinking about professional situations students will face in their own classrooms and teaching situations, while providing a glimpse into the everyday contemporary classroom environment. The new edition features a stronger focus on wellness that prepares students to teach the diverse populations of young children in family child care, child care centers, preschools, and elementary settings by providing everything needed to ensure students understand wellness concepts, know how to apply wellness concepts, and know how to teach wellness concepts to children. More accessible, relevant, and useful to students than ever, Nutrition, Health and Safety for Young Children gives early childhood teachers what they need to help all children attain wellness and be ready for success in school. The Enhanced Pearson eText features embedded videos and assessments. Improve mastery and retention with the Enhanced Pearson eText* The Enhanced Pearson eText provides a rich, interactive learning environment designed to improve student mastery of content. The Enhanced Pearson eText is: Engaging. The new interactive, multimedia learning features were developed by the authors and other subject-matter experts to deepen and enrich the learning experience. Convenient. Enjoy instant online access from your computer or download the Pearson eText App to read on or offline on your iPad® and Android® tablet.* Affordable. The Enhanced Pearson eText may be purchased stand-alone or with a loose-leaf version of the text for 40-65% less than a print bound book. * The Enhanced eText features are only available in the Pearson eText format. They are not available in third-party eTexts or downloads. *The Pearson eText App is available on Google Play and in the App Store. It requires Android OS 3.1-4, a 7" or 10" tablet, or iPad iOS 5.0 or later.

Safety, Nutrition and Health in Early Education will prepare child caregivers to deal with issues of children's safe environments and good nutrition and health, in a practical and realistic manner. It covers basic information, theory, and health assessment tools. In addition, the text includes practical applications, caregiving skills, cultural sensitivity and resources needed for working with children, families and staff. Organized to deliver the material so it is easy to learn and understand, it also includes color art and photographs which help to emphasize key points as well as reflect the diversity in child care.