SAFETY, NUTRITION, AND HEALTH IN EARLY EDUCATION, Sixth Edition, uses theory, practical applications, and resources to prepare early childhood education students for a career in working with children from birth to age eight in multicultural and socioeconomically diverse early childhood settings. This text emphasizes healthy development, including environmental health and safety, active supervision, and how brain development can be affected by issues surrounding safety, nutrition, health, child maltreatment, and mental and emotional health. It also fully integrates NAEYC, DAP, and AAP/APHA professional standards throughout, and includes strategies for how to engage diverse families from various backgrounds and beliefs, and also those whose children have special needs.

Section I: INTRODUCTION.
1. A Holistic Environmental Approach to Healthy Development in Early Childhood Education.
Section II: SAFETY IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION.
2. Creating Safe Environments.
3. Indoor Safety.
4. Outdoor Safety.
5. Emergency Response Procedures.
Section III: NUTRITION IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION.
6. Basic Nutrition for Children.
7. Protecting Good Nutrition for Healthy Development.
8. Providing Good Nutrition for Diverse Children.
9. Meal Planning and Food Safety.
Section IV: HEALTH IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION ENVIRONMENTS.
10. Tools for Promoting Good Health in Children.
11. Prevention of Illness through Infection Control.
12. Promoting Wellness through Supportive Health Care.
13. Providing for Special Health Care Needs.
Section V: CURRENT ISSUES IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION SAFETY, NUTRITION, AND HEALTH.
14. Child Maltreatment.
15. Fostering Good Mental Health and Emotional Well-Being in Children.
Glossary.
References.
Index.

SAFETY, NUTRITION, AND HEALTH IN EARLY EDUCATION, Sixth Edition, uses theory, practical applications, and resources to prepare early childhood education students for a career in working with children from birth to age eight in multicultural and socioeconomically diverse early childhood settings. This text emphasizes healthy development, including environmental health and safety, active supervision, and how brain development can be affected by issues surrounding safety, nutrition, health, child maltreatment, and mental and emotional health. It also fully integrates NAEYC, DAP, and AAP/APHA professional standards throughout, and includes strategies for how to engage diverse families from various backgrounds and beliefs, and also those whose children have special needs. NEW Building Curriculum lesson plans are just one type of TeachSource Digital Downloads in the new edition. These new lesson plans provide a curriculum based on the chapter objectives and the age of child, and specify the methods and materials needed to achieve it. NEW Supporting and Engaging Diverse Families sections in each chapter provide information on how teachers can support families from many cultures and beliefs or with special needs by engaging them in the process of providing better safety and nutrition as well as healthier environments. Strategies are provided for ways teachers working with families can be more culturally competent, and Activities for Family Engagement provide suggestions that enable teachers and families to work together to create a risk-free environment for children. NEW brain development connection boxed features, now provided in nearly every chapter, take a more in-depth look at brain development and how it can be affected by safety, nutrition, health, child maltreatment, and mental and emotional health. Topics include the effects of toxins on the developing brain, nutrition and the brain, motor development and its effects on the developing brain, the effects of maltreatment on the developing brain, and social-emotional relationships and the developing brain. NEW and expanded content discusses the safety and health of our environment, focusing on green cleaning, integrated pest management, indoor air quality, and nature-based outdoor play areas. There's also expanded and updated information on Autism Spectrum Disorder, the increasing use of electronic devices in education, and many other topics that highlight the most current research. NEW topics in some Reality Check boxes provide in-depth information on natural outdoor spaces for safe play, and human generated disasters. NEW Activity for Kids Pyramid from the Food Guidance System of the USDA, and specific information from the physical activity portion of the Food Guidance System, help teachers understand issues related to children and their physical activity. Learning outcomes at the beginning of each chapter correlate with main headings in the chapter to highlight what students need to know, understand, and be able to apply after reading the chapter. Coverage of early childhood standards helps students make connections between professional standards and the content in each chapter. Reality Check boxes address current issues that have an impact on the well being of children. They bring an in-depth approach to some of the more critical areas affecting children and early childhood education environments today.