[DOWNLOAD] "Building Better Human Connections: Parenting/Caring Education for Children and Teens in School." by Childhood Education " eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Building Better Human Connections: Parenting/Caring Education for Children and Teens in School.
- Author : Childhood Education
- Release Date : January 22, 2003
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 200 KB
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With today's focus on academics, many teachers believe they have little time to focus on affective education. Indeed, many educators warn us that rather than no child being left behind, "no child may be left whole" (Merrow, 2002). Brazelton and Greenspan (2000) see human development literacy as being more important to children than math and science, however, and advocate teaching parenting skills as an excellent way to accomplish this learning. Teaching students parenting skills has a great deal of support (Eisler, 2000; Zero to Three, 1992; Zigler, 1999), because it addresses children's immediate social and emotional needs while also laying the groundwork for a more socially and emotionally fit next generation. Empirical evidence demonstrates that parenting education also is associated with improvements in students' caring and social-emotional skills in the classroom (Gulkas, 1994; Masterpaqua, 1992). Comer (2001) reminds us: