Big Body Play - Softcover

Carlson, Frances M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1928896715 ISBN 13: 9781928896715

Publisher: The National Association for the Education of Young Children, 2011

Synopsis

"Big body play”―the sometimes rowdy, always very physical running, rolling, climbing, tagging, jumping, grabbing, and wrestling that most children love and many adults try to shut down―can and should be an integral part of every early childhood setting.

Drawing from evidence-based practice and the latest research, this book explains the multitude of benefits of big body play for young children's social-emotional, cognitive, and physical development.

Learn how to organize the physical environment, set rules and policies, and supervise the play to balance children’s fundamental needs with our responsibility as teachers to keep them safe.

About this title

About the Author

Frances Carlson teaches early childhood education in an associate degree program at Chattahoochee Technical College. Carlson has worked as center administrator for child care programs in Oklahoma and for the Department of the Army in Italy, the Sheltering Arms, Internal Revenue Service, Wachovia Bank, Turner Broadcasting Systems, and the child development lab school at Chattahoochee Technical College. She has led four child care programs successfully through the NAEYC Accreditation process.

Frances has a bachelor’s degree in English from North Georgia College & State University, a certificate in Italian from the Defense Language Institute/Foreign Language Center at the Presidio of Monterey, and a master’s degree in education from Concordia University–St. Paul. Frances authored the NAEYC book Essential Touch: Meeting the Needs of Young Children (2006) and directed and produced the DVD Expect Male Involvement: Recruiting & Retaining Men in ECE (2009).

In her free time, Frances enjoys riding her bike, cooking for her family and friends, and going to movies.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

Young children play vigorously, boisterously, and even roughly with their and with other children’s bodies. Like most adults, I have often questioned whether I should stop this rough style of play for fear a child will get hurt, or whether I should allow it because I remember playing this way as a child. Let me tell you how I have come to believe strongly that, when properly supervised, children’s big body play can and should be an integral part of early childhood settings.

About this edition

• Publisher: The National Association for the Education of Young Children
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1928896715
• ISBN 13: 9781928896715
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 103