Understanding Your Growing Child: Learning begins at home with you as your baby’s first and most important teacher. Take a look through Florida 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.
Baby Navigator: Babies learn at an amazing rate and reach important new milestones every month. Baby Navigator is a free online platform that offers resources to families and providers to track and support their children’s early learning and language development, 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