Nutrition, Health and Safety for Young Children: Promoting Wellness (2nd Edition)
A comprehensive overview of the nutrition, health, and safety needs of young children from birth through school age. Nutrition, Health, and Safety for Young Children: Promoting Wellness, 2/e,prepares future educators to implement healthful practices and teach young children ways to contribute to their own wellness. Anecdotes, cases, authentic examples, and a storytelling approach helps situate wellness concepts for readers, promote thinking about professional situations, and offer a glimpse into the everyday classroom experience–diverse populations of young children in family child care, child care centers, preschools, and elementary school settings. Streamlined throughout to include only 16 chapters, the text still covers the wide range of situations and challenges that teachers of young children are facing today. New to this edition: Chapters were merged and material has been streamlined throughout in order to present the information in 16 chapters, better supporting course organization.New contributing articles, written by early childhood professionals from across the country, describe Progressive Programs & Practices that they have implemented to address issues and concerns in their communities.Important nutrition updates are presented including theUSDA MyPlateapproach for planning healthy meals, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (2010 version) and information about the to the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, and the important changes to the school lunch program to that reflect current evidenced based practices for feeding young children.Discussion of health practices is enhanced to address current childhood health issues and classroom management of children’s health needs.Safety chapters reflect recently revised practices including more focus on emergency preparedness, new strategies for implementing cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and expanded discussion of child maltreatment and violence in children’s lives.New to this edition, provocativeA Matter of Ethics…scenarios challenge students to consider professional practices and explore how teachers are guided by a professional code of behavior. New ideas are provided for teaching wellness concepts to children with special developmental needs and those who are learning English to ensure that all children have the opportunity to learn healthy practices.Revised Chapter 1,Your Role in Children’s Wellness, establishes the importance of integrating nutrition, health, and safety concepts throughout professional teaching and in the daily curriculum.   Also from Joanne Sorte, Inge Daeschel and Carolina Amador:          0132349418 - Nutrition, Health, and Safety for Young Children: Promoting Wellness, 1/e - ©2011