num_pages: 168
description: Separation often evokes feelings of fear and anxiety in all of us―children, parents, and teachers alike. Because the success or failure of early separation experiences can affect a child’s movement toward independence, teachers and parents must know how to help young children cope with the unpleasant feelings sometimes associated with separation. In Everyday Goodbyes (her follow-up to Starting From Separation to Independence ), Nancy Balaban once again addresses this critical aspect of child development. Emphasizing the need for parents and teachers to work together in phasing children into a child-care, preschool, or kindergarten program, she offers many sensitive, practical suggestions to ease the separation process for all involved. Positioning separation as the underlying curriculum for all early childhood programs, this wonderful 
language: English
title: Everyday Goodbyes: Starting School and Early Care: A Guide to the Separation Process
titlecomplete: Everyday Goodbyes: Starting School and Early Care: A Guide to the Separation Process (Early Childhood Education Series)
genres: Parenting
ratings_count: 5
series: Early Childhood Education
publisher: Teachers College Press