Caroline Wright – Författare

Being mentally healthy in early childhood enables babies and young children to understand and cope with emotions, experience meaningful, nurturing relationships, and explore, play and learn. This book supports early-years practitioners to develop and consider the quality of their interactions and to understand how to meet children’s emotional needs effectively.The book considers what every child needs to feel safe, secure and loved. Offering a whole setting approach to emotional health and wellbeing, it outlines essential knowledge on brain development, environments and working with parents. Chapters cover neuroscientific theories on early brain development and practice, and are aligned to typical child development, offering practical evidence-based strategies and activities to secure children’s emotional wellbeing both now and as they grow.Including reflective tasks and suggestions for individual and group activities, this is essential reading for early-years practitioners and students. It will also be valuable reading for parents.

Learn each shape and how to bake with this cookie-and-truck-themed shapes board book that features a kid-friendly recipe!Baking cookies together is a special treat that makes learning each shape especially sweet!Little bakers and vehicle lovers everywhere will be inspired by this rhythmic story about a truck made out of sugar cookies of all shapes that will drive them right to the kitchen to join adults in measuring, mixing, decorating, and tasting! Featuring catchy, rhyming text, irresistible art, and a kid-friendly recipe for homemade sugar cookies, this sturdy board book is perfect for story time and snack time. Hungry for more? Check out all the books in the Little Bakers series: 1234 Cake!: A Count-and-Bake BookB Is for Brownies: An ABC Baking Book—coming in January 2022!

Baking is as easy as A-B-C with this brownies-themed alphabet board book that features a kid-friendly recipe!Little bakers everywhere will love reading this catchy rhyming story and discovering everything that’s involved in baking brownies—from A to Z—and then joining adults in the kitchen to practice measuring, mixing, decorating, and tasting!Featuring irresistibly bright and bold art and a kid-friendly brownies recipe, this sturdy board book is perfect for story time and snack time.Hungry for more? Check out all the books in the Little Bakers series:1234 Cake!: A Count-and-Bake BookCookie Truck: A Sugar Cookie Shapes Book

Changing Family Values offers a comprehensive introduction to contemporary debates and new research surrounding the family. It explores how we define traditional family values and how these values are perceived as being underthreat in contemporary society. Ranging across politics, social policy, law and sociology, the contributors focus on the diverse realities of contemporary family life. Issues covered include:* the recent backlash against single mothers* lesbian and gay families and the law* men's changing roles within the family* the future of the nuclear family.This book is ideal for courses covering the family, a central topic in sociology and women's studies.

Choose a batter, flavor with syrup, add a frosting—it’s magic! Want something decadent and fudgy? Darkest Chocolate Cake + Caramel Syrup + Malted Milk Chocolate Frosting + crushed candy bars = Candy Bar Cake. Or how about a nutty cake like the Elvis: Peanut Butter Cake + Bacon Syrup + Nutella Frosting, topped with candied bacon. Fit for the king, indeed! This innovative and remarkably easy way to bake luscious, flavorful cakes is a formula for cake bliss. Cake Magic! is a full-color visual cookbook—photos in the front, recipes in the back—and the first step in every baker’s cake adventure. It includes valuable baking tips, vegan and gluten-free variations, plus how to tweak the recipes to make sheet cakes, Bundt cakes, and cupcakes, too.

Being mentally healthy in early childhood enables babies and young children to understand and cope with emotions, experience meaningful, nurturing relationships, and explore, play and learn. This book supports early-years practitioners to develop and consider the quality of their interactions and to understand how to meet children’s emotional needs effectively.The book considers what every child needs to feel safe, secure and loved. Offering a whole setting approach to emotional health and wellbeing, it outlines essential knowledge on brain development, environments and working with parents. Chapters cover neuroscientific theories on early brain development and practice, and are aligned to typical child development, offering practical evidence-based strategies and activities to secure children’s emotional wellbeing both now and as they grow.Including reflective tasks and suggestions for individual and group activities, this is essential reading for early-years practitioners and students. It will also be valuable reading for parents.