This book examines the cumulative effects of working with high trauma populations as they pertain to education settings. This text incorporates current research, anecdotal stories, and workbook pages so that practitioners are properly informed on how to identify and employ protective practices when it comes to burnout and compassion fatigue. Educators rarely receive training that prepares them for working with children and youth who are the victims of neglect, abuse, poverty, and loss. Education professionals who are already overburdened with an overwhelming number of job-related tasks can find themselves depleted due to their care and concern for their most vulnerable students. As a result, educators experience the physical and emotional symptoms of burnout and compassion fatigue. Appropriate for both young and experienced educators, this important text provides a clear and concise approach to the topic of burnout and compassion fatigue that engages the reader in a journey of self-reflection, highlighting potential signs and symptoms of burnout, as well as examining how the school environment and individual characteristics might collide to put educators at risk. Most importantly, this book provides guidance and resources to assist educators in implementing both individual and organizational practices that promote long-term resilience and self-care. To be at their most effective, educators must be able to care for themselves while also caring for their students.

Imagine a world where Home Daycare providers are recognized as teachers, educators and acknowledged as making a difference in children's lives before they get to elementary school. A world where we are respected and seen as professionals - as Early Childhood Educators and not babysitters. A world where our learning environment is valued and appreciated.Very often, daycare providers are overlooked on teacher appreciation days, and seldomly recognized as teachers. We teach children from infancy preparing them for elementary school and beyond. Home Daycare providers have accolades like many other teachers; the difference is working from home, not a school. We work tirelessly to continually mold the little citizens of tomorrow, spending endless hours nurturing, educating, and caring for them.I have a degree in Child Psychology, and yearly I engage in personal and professional development courses which enhance my offerings. This book presents tips on how to show up as a happy Home Daycare provider day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, and for decades. This book provides guidelines for new or seasoned daycare providers.In these pages, you'll discover how to: - Push past the feeling of burnout. - Overcome classic issues like: lesson plans children who bite picky eaters potty training client relationships - Have an environment that encourages learning and discovery - Organize policies and expectation to have in the Daycare Contract . Selfcare I invite you to dive in and discover positive ways to be the confident Early Childhood Educator you are.

Intentionally kept below 100 pages, this is the TL;DR, no-worksheet, parenting guide to nurturing our children's growth while preserving our parental mental health. This method was developed to be particularly useful at redefining boundaries between working at home while also parenting at home.There are guidelines for time spent with children, activities to use to engage children independently, and mental exercises for younger children to succeed at learning for periods in excess of their average attention span. While there is no one size fits all technique for parenting, Power Switch Parenting proposes a customizable method to optimize quality time parenting our children and quality time cultivating parent and child independence.

If you want to fix your rebellious and disrespectful child, you need to start by fixing yourself. Are your kids pummeling you with demands and bossing you around with impunity? Have your once-precious preschoolers become rebellious, entitled, and disrespectful to authority? While there are plenty of so-called experts who might try to validate your convictions that you have done all you can to “fix” your “difficult” children, the hard truth is, they’re not doing you any favors by placing the responsibility solely on your children. Parenting struggles rarely originate from just one side. Instead, they erupt at the volatile intersection of a child's personality with a parent's own insecurities and behaviors. In When Kids Call the Shots, therapist and parenting expert Sean Grover untangles the forces driving family dysfunction, and helps parents assume their leadership roles once again. Parents will discover: Three common bullying styles used by kids Parenting styles that contribute to power balances Critical testing periods in a child’s development Coping mechanisms that backfire Personalized plans for calmly exerting authority in any scenario The solution to any problem begins with learning to control what you can control. In parenting, you’ve already learned how impossible it is to control your kids. Begin by controlling you!

From two internationally recognized experts in the field of gifted education comes this timely exploration of how best to nurture a child’s unique gifts, and set them on a path to a happily productive life — in school and beyond. What is intelligence? Is it really a have or have not proposition, as we’ve been led to believe? Are some children just destined to fall behind? Dona Matthews and Joanne Foster answer those questions with a resounding “No!” In Beyond Intelligence, they demonstrate that every child has the ability to succeed — with the right support and guidance. But how can parents provide that support? Matthews and Foster proceed from the assumption that knowledge is power, offering parents an information-packed guide to identifying a child’s ability, fostering creativity, and bolstering effort and persistence. Using case studies and anecdotes from their personal and professional experience, they explore different ways of learning; the links between creativity and intelligence; and how to best to provide emotional and social supports. They offer critical advice on how to work co-operatively with schools and educators, and address how to embrace failures as learning opportunities. Drawing on the latest research in brain development and education theory, Beyond Intelligence is a must-read for today’s parents and educators.