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How to Help Young Children Heal from Pandemic Trauma

By Michelle Salcedo, M.Ed., author of Uncover the Roots of Challenging Behavior: Create Responsive Environments Where Young Children Thrive As summer weather creeps in and vaccines go in arms, you can almost feel the collective exhale as many of us cautiously … Continue reading

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Enter to Win Books for Reducing Challenging Behavior in Young Children

This month we’re thrilled to give away a copy of Michelle Salcedo’s new book, Uncover the Roots of Challenging Behavior, along with eight other books to help little ones learn how to calm down, share, get along with others, and … Continue reading

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Libraries Are for Laughing: How Hands Are Not for Hitting Made the Library Cool Again

by Livy Traczyk A huddle of blue-and-white–uniformed bodies heaving with laughter in the library meant only one thing to this seasoned preK teacher: someone, in some way, was violating a classroom rule. Why else would this particular group of four-year-olds … Continue reading

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