Family Science
Bright Beginnings
Bright Beginnings is a new parent education curriculum focused on parenting young children from the prenatal period
through eight years of age. Encouraged by research on the importance of young children's development, this curriculum focuses on key aspects of a child's growth and development.
The significance of a child's early years are explored through lesson modules on brain development, parent-child attachment, prenatal health, social development, children and play, quality child care, reading, drug and alcohol prevention, and other topics.
• Parents and other adults provide the stable foundation that is necessary as a child reaches for his or her full potential.
• A child's beginning represents the foundation upon which a happy life is established.
• It is in a child's early years that the foundation for life's journey begins.
- Prenatal Parenting: From Beginning to Birth
- Brain Development in Infancy and Early Childhood
- Attachment in Infancy and Early Childhood
- From Muscles to Motor Skills: Understanding and Enhancing Young Children's Physical Development
- Young Children and Emotional Intelligence
- Assisting Your Child's Social Development
- Selecting a Quality Child Care Setting
- The Magic of Reading with Young Children
- Play's the Thing! Young Children and the Importance of Play
- Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Prevention
for Young Children
