Provides numerous instructional resources that support each chapter of the textbook including bulletin board ideas, introductory activities, suggested teaching strategies, test masters, answer keys, reproducible masters, transparency masters, and much more. All of the resources for teaching each chapter are conveniently grouped together.

Designed with classroom teachers in mind, this special edition of the student text offers teaching strategies and classroom activities to make learning reinforcement, discussion, personal reflection, activities that reteach and reinforce concepts, and enrichment activities. A correlation of "Parents and Their Children" to the FCS National Standards for Parenting will help you easily identify the knowledge, skills, and practices students need to learn to become competent parents.

Children: The Early Years focuses on how to meet children's developmental needs in each stage of child growth. The text discusses children's physical, intellectual, and social-emotional development from the prenatal stage through the school-age years. It also covers teen parenting, family crisis, balancing family and work roles, careers in child-related fields, observation techniques, and more.
-- New end-of-chapter feature called "To Think Critically".
-- Updated charts and photographs.
-- Updated information on adoption, family planning alternatives, and fertility counseling, as well as more emphasis on abstinence.
-- New sections on developmental delays, developmentally appropriate practices, ADHD, and ADD.

Designed with classroom teachers in mind, this special edition of the student text offers teaching strategies and classroom activities to make learning reinforcement, discussion, personal reflection, activities that reteach and reinforce concepts, and enrichment activities. A correlation of Parents and Their Children to the FCS National Standards for Parenting will help you easily identify the knowledge, skills, and practices students need to learn to become competent parents.

Designed to help students review content, apply knowledge, and develop critical-thinking skills. A wide variety of activities help students review child development principles and theories and apply chapter concepts. This supplement is a consumable resource, designed with perforated pages so that a given chapter can be removed and turned in for grading or checking.

Children: The Early Years focuses on how to meet children's developmental needs in each stage of child growth. The text discusses children's physical, intellectual, and social-emotional development from the prenatal stage through the school-age years. It also covers teen parenting, family crisis, balancing family and work roles, careers in child-related fields, observation techniques, and more.
-- New end-of-chapter feature called "To Think Critically".
-- Updated charts and photographs.
-- Updated information on adoption, family planning alternatives, and fertility counseling, as well as more emphasis on abstinence.
-- New sections on developmental delays, developmentally appropriate practices, ADHD, and ADD.

Child development students and teachers alike will find this new edition of Children: The Early Years inviting! The open, colorful new design contains more than 100 new photos and charts. Other new features include chapter-opening case studies, Ties with Family and Community activities, a running glossary, and a new appendix on indoor dangers for young children. To keep this authoritative text current, the content has been thoroughly revised. Even with all these changes, Children The Early Years retains its focus on guiding children's development and meeting developmental needs from the prenatal stage through the school-age years.