Session Information
2012 NAEYC Annual Conference & Expo
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Recognizing & Easing Child Stresses: Insights and Techniques for Teachers
Track : November 08, 2012
Program Code: 240077
Date: Thursday, November 8, 2012
Time: 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM  EST
Location: Georgia World Congress Center B304
SPEAKER :
Alice Honig, Professor Emerita, Syracuse University
Description
Stresses in children's lives are not always easy to discern. We need to recognize all the different ways in which children express the distress they feel, even when their behaviors are sometimes bewildering to caregivers. Yet, insights are not enough as we identify stresses. We also need specific child development knowledge, for example, about child temperament style and the development of secure attachment to a loving adult to promote compliance with adult requests and positive child play experiences with peers. We need specific techniques to address different kinds of child stresses. This presentation will sensitize us to a wide variety of child stresses and also provide dozens of specific techniques to use in individual interactions as well as with groups of children. It will include bodily reassuring through soothing and other ways to convey our deep, genuine interest and cherishing for each child as well as ways to handle conflicts or worried feelings. We will discuss dozens of different strategies to handle and ease stresses in infant, toddler, and preschoolers' lives and our own lives in order to enable more joyous and cooperative interactions between children, their peers, and ourselves.


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