Growth & Development
Learning, parenting and developmental resources.
Second Step
Children's House uses a social-emotional curriculum in the classroom called Second Step. The preschool years are very important. We want your child to be as ready as possible for kindergarten. This is not just about knowing letters and numbers. It's also about knowing how to learn and get along with others.
The Second Step program teaching skills in the following four areas:
Skills for Learning: Children gain skills to help them be better learners, including how to focus their attention, listen carefully, and ask for help.
Empathy: Children learn to identify and understand their own and others' feelings. Children also learn how to show care for others.
Emotion Management: Children learn how to calm down when they have strong feelings, such as worry or anger.
Friendship Skills and Problem Solving: Children learn how to make and keep friends and to solve problems with others in a positive way.
To follow along and access parent resources, log in at www.secondstep.org and use the activation key SSPE FAMI LY68
Essential Online Reading
ARTICLE: 13 Tips for Starting Preschool
ARTICLE: Encourage Healthy Sleep Habits
ARTICLE: The Importance of Regular Bedtimes
ARTICLE: Guide to Your Child’s Behavior
Book Recommendations
Communicating With Your Child
How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen by Joanna Faber & Julia King
Siblings/ Families
Siblings Without Rivalry by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
Understanding Your Child's Developing Brain
The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind by Daniel J. Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson
Explosive Child, The: A New Approach For Understanding And Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children by Ross Greene
No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind by Daniel J. Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson
Nurturing Child and Family-Friendly Habits
Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids by Kim John Payne & Lisa M. Ross
The Importance of Being Little: What Young Children Really Need from Grownups by Erika Christakis
Lisa Murphy on Play: The Foundation of Children's Learning by Lisa Murphy
Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child by Ross Greene