Activities for Responsive Caregiving: Infants, Toddlers, and Twos [Paperback]

101 play-based activities to begin a lifetime of learning

Very young children are rapidly changing and eagerly discovering their worlds. As a responsive caregiver, you support children’s development and create a nurturing environment filled with opportunities for them to joyfully explore, learn, and grow. This resource provides more than a hundred play-based activities to help infants, toddlers, and two-year-olds develop the skills they need to become active, happy lifelong learners. Each activity is easy to implement, engages children in playful experiences, and emphasizes primary and secondary learning outcomes in social-emotional, physical, cognitive, and language development. Use this book to strengthen your understanding about how children grow and create countless moments of nurturing through developmentally appropriate learning experiences.

Jean Barbre, EdDhas thirty years of experience working with children and families as a licensed marriage and family therapist, preschool director, teacher, college instructor, national and international speaker, and a guest presenter on public television. Dr. Barbre holds a master’s degree in child and family studies from California State University, Long Beach, a master’s degree in counseling from California State University, Fullerton, and a doctorate degree in educational leadership from Pepperdine University.

“Activities for Responsive Caregivingpresents examples of easy-to-follow caregiving practices that promote child development. This book should be in the hands of every caregiver of very young children.”
—Dr. Diana B. Hiatt-Michael, Professor Emeritus, Pepperdine University

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