Starting with Characterfocuses on character development in infants, toddlers, and twos. This guide provides everything needed for preparing the environment, creating routines, and evaluating individual learning styles. Lesson plans and steps for creating new lessons are provided, as well as guides for evaluating children's progress. Facilitate the development of key character traits in children: caring, honesty, integrity, respect, responsibility, and self-discipline.
Cathy Waggonerhas worked in the field of education since 1989 with experience as a child care director and administrator at the Promethean Foundation.
Martha Herndon, PhD, has worked as both an ECE educator and researcher since 1975.
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According to the authors, both educators, previous research proposed that young babies and toddlers were too egocentric to understand another persons perspective. However, new approaches appreciate the enormous capacity for learning that happens in these early years and argue that even the youngest ones have a significant ability for moral learning. ?Waggoner and Herndon explore how character is shaped through childrens interactions with others, particularly primary caregivers, and focus their activities on six qualities typically associated with a strong spirit: caring, honesty, integrity, respect, responsibility, and self-discipline. With a healthy acknowledgment of child-development stages and limitations, the authors present activities such as peekaboo and tummlÓ<
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