Understanding Your Growing Child: Learning begins at home with you as your baby’s first and most important teacher. Take a look through the Florida Office of Early Learning’s First Teacher books for guidance on your child’s development and how to encourage them to explore, learn and grow, click here.
Family Engagement: When families, communities and schools work together, students are more successful and the entire community benefits, click here.
Florida Early Learning and Development Standards: The standards and benchmarks reflect the knowledge and skills that a child on a developmental progression should know and be able to do at the end of an age-related timeframe, click here.
Building Relationships
- Reading your child’s cues from birth to 2 – English
- Make the most of playtime – English | Spanish
- Moving from praise to acknowledgment – English | Spanish
- Positive solutions for families – English | Spanish
- Teaching your child to cooperate with requests – English | Spanish
- Tell me what to do instead – English | Spanish
- Tips to help grandparents bond with grandchildren – English | Spanish
Friendship Skills
- Learning to share – English | Spanish
- Learn to trade – English | Spanish
- Getting your attention appropriately – English | Spanish
- Taking turns – English | Spanish
- Social stories teach new skills – English | Spanish
Emotional Well-Being
- Identify and express emotions – English | Spanish
- Teaching your child about feelings – English | Spanish
- Understand & label emotions – English | Spanish
- Recognize & understand anger – English | Spanish
- Recognize & understand disappointment – English | Spanish
- Recognize & understand fear – English | Spanish
- Recognize & understand frustration – English | Spanish
- Recognize & understand jealousy – English | Spanish
- Recognize & understand sadness – English | Spanish
- Positive language to improve behavior – English | Spanish
- Coping with a crisis – English
- How to talk to your child about the news – English
Addressing Behavior
- Give clear directions – English | Spanish
- Help your child stop biting – English | Spanish
- Responding to Your Child’s Bite – English
- Help your child stop hitting, pushing – English | Spanish
- How to help your child stop whining – English | Spanish
- Your child’s challenging behavior – English | Spanish
- Help your child avoid meltdowns – English | Spanish
- Repair a morning routine that is not working – English
- Riding the bus – English | Spanish
- Riding in the car – English | Spanish
- Cleaning up toys – English | Spanish
- Following directions – English | Spanish
- Leaving the house – English | Spanish
- At the grocery store – English | Spanish
- Changing activities/making transitions – English | Spanish
- Problem-solving in the moment – English
- Dealing with temper tantrums – English
Playtime
- Learning through play from birth to 3 – English | Spanish
- Movement in your child’s first three years – English | Spanish
- Make the most of playtime – English
- Active play, healthy habits start early – English | Spanish
- Special playtime to encourage positive behavior – English
- Benefits of children playing outdoors, click here
- 10 ideas to get you and your child exploring outdoors, click here
- Explore a state park, click here
- Use summer fun to build background knowledge, click here
- Vroom through the summer, click here