From Biting to Hugging: Understanding Social Development in Infants and Toddlers - Paperback

by Donna Wittmer (Author), Deanna W. Clauson (Author)

From Biting to HuggingUnderstanding Social Development in Infants and Toddlers
Donna S. Wittmer, PhD, and Deanna W. Clauson

With the increase in both parents working outside the home during the last two decades, infants and toddlers are spending more time together in infant/toddler programs and family child-care homes. From Biting to Hugging provides effective strategies to help parents and caregivers take advantage of this peer time.

- Enhance the quality of peer experiences in infant/toddler group settings
- Create responsive adult-child relationships and environments
- Encourage positive social emotional development and learning
- Teach infants and toddlers how to be in healthy, enjoyable relationships
- Learn strategies for gently handling challenging behaviors

Pub Date: May 2018
ISBN: 978-0-87659-740-8, Item # 15928
US $24.95 PB, 8.5 x 11, 192 pp.
For educators and caregivers of children 0-3 years old RIGHTS SOLD: World Rights Available

HIGHLIGHTS

- Walks the reader through possible challenges and conflicts for each stage of learning

- Provides strategies for preventing conflict and harmful behaviors such as fighting
and biting

- Includes strategies for teaching prosocial behaviors

Front Jacket

From Biting to Hugging: Understanding Social Development in Infants and Toddlers
by Donna Wittmer, PhD, and Deanna W. Clauson

• Aren't infants too little to notice and learn from other infants?
• The toddlers in my room are always grabbing things from each other. What should I do?
• I saw a toddler give a crying child a toy. How can I help toddlers do that more often?
• The two-year-olds in my room are always saying, "Mine," when they are playing with a toy and another child approaches. Is this normal?
• I have a two-year-old in my room who screams when other children come close. How can I help her?

The infant-toddler years can be challenging. Teachers, parents, and caregivers need strategies to help infants and toddlers feel safe, secure, loved, lovable, and happy. Little ones need adult help to learn how to be in healthy, enjoyable relationships.

From Biting to Hugging offers strategies to help caregivers teach the littlest children prosocial behaviors and techniques to deal in developmentally appropriate ways with challenging behaviors such as biting and hitting. Learn how infants and toddlers develop socially and emotionally and discover ideas for nurturing:

• Self-regulation
• Skills for joining in play
• Expressing needs and emotions
• Conflict-resolution skills
• And so much more!

Donna Wittmer, PhD, is associate professor emerita of early childhood and early childhood special education in the School of Education at the University of Colorado, Denver. She earned her doctorate in child, family, and community studies at Syracuse University. A prolific author, she has written dozens of articles and books on early childhood development. She is a sought-after speaker and presenter worldwide.
Deanna W. Clauson is a freelance writer. She earned her bachelor's degree in journalism and mass communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She writes articles for Colorado publications, grant applications, and case studies for the University of Denver.

Back Jacket

From Biting to Hugging: Understanding Social Development in Infants and Toddlers
by Donna Wittmer, PhD, and Deanna W. Clauson

• Aren't infants too little to notice and learn from other infants?
• The toddlers in my room are always grabbing things from each other. What should I do?
• I saw a toddler give a crying child a toy. How can I help toddlers do that more often?
• The two-year-olds in my room are always saying, "Mine," when they are playing with a toy and another child approaches. Is this normal?
• I have a two-year-old in my room who screams when other children come close. How can I help her?

The infant-toddler years can be challenging. Teachers, parents, and caregivers need strategies to help infants and toddlers feel safe, secure, loved, lovable, and happy. Little ones need adult help to learn how to be in healthy, enjoyable relationships.

From Biting to Hugging offers strategies to help caregivers teach the littlest children prosocial behaviors and techniques to deal in developmentally appropriate ways with challenging behaviors such as biting and hitting. Learn how infants and toddlers develop socially and emotionally and discover ideas for nurturing:

• Self-regulation
• Skills for joining in play
• Expressing needs and emotions
• Conflict-resolution skills
• And so much more!

Donna Wittmer, PhD, is associate professor emerita of early childhood and early childhood special education in the School of Education at the University of Colorado, Denver. She earned her doctorate in child, family, and community studies at Syracuse University. A prolific author, she has written dozens of articles and books on early childhood development. She is a sought-after speaker and presenter worldwide.
Deanna W. Clauson is a freelance writer. She earned her bachelor's degree in journalism and mass communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She writes articles for Colorado publications, grant applications, and case studies for the University of Denver.

Author Biography

Donna Wittmer, PhD, is associate professor emerita of early childhood and early childhood special education in the School of Education at the University of Colorado, Denver. She earned her doctorate in child, family, and community studies at Syracuse University. A prolific author, she has written dozens of articles and books on early childhood development. She is a sought-after speaker and presenter worldwide.
Deanna W. Clauson is a freelance writer. She earned her bachelor's degree in journalism and mass communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She writes articles for Colorado publications, grant applications, and case studies for the University of Denver.