Bestselling guide showing how parents and practitioners can offer children adventure and challenge without risking their safety
Jennie Lindon is a chartered psychologist and early years consultant. Jennie has over 30 years' experience of working with the different types of early years provision for children and families and has published widely. She is committed to writing about best practice that shows active respect for the needs and perspective of children. Her books all have a strong underpinning of development and the importance of realistic adult expectations.
This is a very welcome second edition of a book that has been
enormously popular since it was first published over 10 years ago.
The theme of the book - the importance of helping young children to
learn about risk and life skills - has not changed, but the text
has been completely reworked to ensure it fully reflects current
thinking and key issue. There are new examples to learn from, many
of which look at current approaches to promoting young children's
learning in and through nature.
The author speaks authoritatively and convincingly about the
importance of young children being able to learn through practical
experiences how to manage risk in order to keep themselves safe.
This, along with the many practical examples quoted, is of enormous
help to the practitioner searching for ways to ensure they fulfil
their responsibility for 'teaching children step by step how to
keep themselves safe'.
This book is highly recommended for use in every early years
setting and, as it covers the age range up to eight, every primary
school too.
*Early Years Update 94: December 2011/January 2012*
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