
Too Safe For Their Own Good?, Second Edition
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This bestselling guide shows how adults can share their own skills with young children to promote understanding of safety in a stimulating way. It covers key areas such as: putting risk into perspective; how children learn to take care of themselves; supporting children after accidents and avoiding preventable accidents; and working in partnership with parents. This second edition has been fully updated to reflect current practice, featuring new material on risk-benefit analysis and the importance of outdoor experiences.
Too Safe for Their Own Good? will support any practitioner working with children under the age of 8 with the guidance they need to offer enough challenge to benefit children, and to avoid over-protection or careless practice.
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This is a very welcome second edition of a book that has been enormously popular since it was first published over 10 years ago. The theme of the book - the importance of helping young children to learn about risk and life skills - has not changed, but the text has been completely reworked to ensure it fully reflects current thinking and key issue. There are new examples to learn from, many of which look at current approaches to promoting young children's learning in and through nature.The author speaks authoritatively and convincingly about the importance of young children being able to learn through practical experiences how to manage risk in order to keep themselves safe. This, along with the many practical examples quoted, is of enormous help to the practitioner searching for ways to ensure they fulfil their responsibility for 'teaching children step by step how to keep themselves safe'.
This book is highly recommended for use in every early years setting and, as it covers the age range up to eight, every primary school too. * Early Years Update 94: December 2011/January 2012 *
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- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 A Responsible Approach Towards Risk
- Actual threats to children's safety
- Very anxious adults
- A change in the atmosphere?
- Risks and benefits
- 2 Learning about Safety up to Middle Childhood
- Under ones
- Toddlers and young twos
- Three to five years of age
- Five to eight years of age
- Children with disabilities or chronic illness
- 3 Dealing with Incidents and Accidents
- Concern over what might happen
- When something nearly happens
- When something happens
- Alternatives to bans
- The problem-solving approach
- Emotional support following serious incidents
- 4 Learning from Adults' Experience
- Step-by-step coaching
- Be clear about technique and safety
- 5 Active in Nurture and Personal Routines
- Care of babies and younger ones
- Hygiene and cleanliness
- Basic first aid
- Fire, heat and safety issues
- 6 Physical Play and Exploration
- A safe enough environment
- Learning to assess risk
- 7 Practical Lifeskills
- Using tools
- Cooking
- Gardening
- Construction, simple DIY and crafts
- 8 Travelling Around
- Benefits as well as risk assessment
- Planning and navigating
- Using public transport
- Finding each other
- Road safety
- Security and self-protection
- 9 Partnership with Parents
- Early contact with parents
- Continued communication in partnership
- References and Further Resources
- Index
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