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8 Actions That Help Ease Young Children’s Anxiety
September 15, 2025
Updated 9/15/2025 Young children who frequently experience anxious feelings need patient, caring, and knowledgeable adults to provide them with effective support. Adapted from the home visiting guidebook Tackling the Tough…
10 Ways to Support Young Children’s Resilience and Healing
July 29, 2025
To cope with stressors and big feelings, young children need caring adults who know how to support them sensitively and effectively. Adapted from the important new book Uniting Infant Mental…
INFOGRAPHIC: 5 Ways to Help Children Learn About Emotions
July 2, 2025
Looking to help young children develop emotional literacy? Start with these 5 practical suggestions from the Brookes book Tackling the Tough Stuff: ORDER THE BOOK "Tackling the Tough Stuff,…
8 Actions for Managing Classroom Conflicts in Young Children
April 1, 2025
No matter how engaging your lessons are and how welcoming your classroom is, young learners will experience some degree of conflict with their peers. Whether these conflicts are fleeting arguments…
Debunking the Myths About the Pyramid Model and Infant Mental Health
March 11, 2025
The Pyramid Model and infant and early childhood mental health (IECMH) are two frameworks that have an important common goal: supporting the mental health and social-emotional well-being of infants, young…
8 Activities that Teach Young Children Social-Emotional Skills
February 4, 2025
Whether you’re an early childhood educator, a parent, or both, you know how important healthy social-emotional development is, especially in a child’s formative first years. Today we’re sharing some fun…
The Infant-Toddler Pyramid Model: 5 Frequently Asked Questions
January 21, 2025
13 Tips for Sharing Social-Emotional Screening Results with Families
January 7, 2025
Is your early childhood program using ASQ®:SE-2 for social-emotional screening yet? A recent final rule from the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) emphasized the importance of screening for social…
A holiday gift for you
December 17, 2024
Our Brookes family wishes you a peaceful holiday season. To help you find joy throughout the new year, we’ve created a special gift for you: a free printable calendar full…
10 Joyful Activities that Boost Young Children’s Development
December 11, 2024
We could all use a little more joy in our lives—and the activities in today’s post will help you infuse more fun and positivity into your routines with young children.…