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Title: Social Emotional Development: 24-36 months Author: No author Date Published: 2010 Why Relevant and Summary: This is an accessible guide for parents of two year olds to learn ways to help their toddler understand his feelings, encourage early friendships, letting the child lead in play, and supporting older toddlers' developing skills, as well as helping the child learn to resolve conflict in healthy ways, understand reasons for limits/request, use language to communicate needs. How this influenced my thinking: As a mother of two children (fairly recently out of the toddler stage) this gave me quite a bit to reflect on as far as my own parenting and how I can make improvements going forward should I ever have more children, and it would likely influence any advice I may give out to parents of toddlers. Credibility of Source: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families is an organization dedicated to healthy child development, so this publication is likely backed by solid research.

Title: Social Intelligence for Toddlers Author: Dr. Laura Markham Date Published: n.d. Why Relevant and Summary: This site is relevant because it gives tips on how to handle toddlers in social interactions, and how to help them interact well with others, and understand to not only understand their own emotions, but the emotions of others as well. How this Influenced my Thinking: This showed me just how important it is to communicate with children about their feelings, and how to help them understand them. It showed me it is important to be calm and discuss what is going on, instead of simply reacting to a situation. Credibility of Source: Degree aquired by author, found on ahaparenting.com, a website for parent to seek helpful and beneficial tips and lessons on raising kids.

Title: Social Intelligence of Toddlers Author: Dr. Laura Markham Date: ND Why Relevant and Summary: This article lists ways to help your child develop social skills through social interactions with others. How This Influenced My Thinking: This articles identified the importance of communicating and intervening with your child to help develop social skills and the importance of knowing how your child feels, and helping your child understand other peoples feelings. Credibility of Source: The author is a doctor.

Title: Praise, encouragement, and rewards while raising your toddler Author: Raising Children Network Date Published: 2011 Why Relevant and Summary: This article gives multiple ways to connect and help the social development of your toddler. It gives examples of how a parent should praise, encourage, and reward their children. I also like this website because it included videos and demonstrations of what a parent could do while raising their toddlers. How This Influenced My Thinking: This reinforces my understanding of how much attention toddlers need from their parents during their development in order to increase their own development. Credibility of Source: I browsed the whole website and all information seems accurate and it has a lot of good examples and ideas.

Title:Nutrition and Brain Development in infants, toddlers and preschoolers Author:Kristin Mortensen Date Published: 2013 Why Relevant and Summary: This article talks about all of the important nutrients needed for an infant to grow neurologically and phsyically. How This Influenced My Thinking:gives great insight as to how each important nutrient effects a baby's brain development. Credibility of Source: high, author is a registered dietitian as well as journalist.

Title:Nutrition & Brain Development in Infants, Toddlers & Preschoolers Author:Kristin Mortensen Date Published:n.d. Why Relevant and Summary:This article talks about the importance of nutrition and brain development in infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. Proteins, calories, fats, and vitamins & minerals, and how much they need in order to continue living healthy and continue positive brain development. How This Influenced My Thinking:This article made me aware of the foods that infants, toddlers, and preschoolers should be eating in order to promote positive brain development. Credibility of Source:Credible. Article from San Francisco Chronicle

Title: A Mom's Guide to Toddler Discipline Author: Stephanie Wood Date Published: N.D. Why Relevant and Summary: Provides different tips and methods with which to discipline a toddler...how to stay in control and keep your sanity when parenting a toddler. Identifies what to expect and how to react. How This Influenced My Thinking: Gave me some tips that are practicable and will be useable if I were to have children, or when interacting with children of that age. Credibility of Source: Parenting.com; from perspective of an experienced mother.

Title: Understanding Temperament in Infants and Toddlers Author: Lindsey T. Allard and Amy Hunter Date published: N.D. Why Relevant and Summary: This article gives a good description of the different temperaments and different parenting skills you could use based on the temperament. How this influenced my thinking: I used to think that there was only one way to parent and what worked for one child would work for all but this showed me that by understanding your child's temperament you can develop a much more effective way to parent. Credibility of source: Seems credible, a lot of references.

Title: Understanding Temperament in Infants and Toddlers Author: Lindsey T. Allard and Amy Hunter Date Published: 2010 Why Relevant and Summary: This article is relevant because it defines temperament in a way that anyone without background information can understand it. As well it gives examples and defines what goodness-of-fit is. How This Influenced My Thinking: This article gave be better understanding of what temperament is and goodness-of-fit. The article also gave me understanding on how an environment can effect a infant or toddler's temperament. Credibility of Source: This material was developed by the Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning with federal funds from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families.

Title:Understanding Temperament in Infants and Toddlers Author: Lindsay T. Allard and Amy Hunter Published:2010 Why Relevant and summary:This article is detailed and has given credibility to the sources they got the information from. This is helpful when wanting to do more extensive research. I found this relevant because many of the prompt question could be answered from here How influenced my thinking: This influenced my thinking because i was not aware of the 'Goodness of Fit' Credibility: Good credibility

Title: Cognitive Development Author: No Author Date Published: N.D.  Why Relevant and Summary: It gives great incite to the cognitive development of toddlers. How this influenced my thinking:It gave me a better understand of toddlers behavior. Credibility of Source: This article seems credible, it from parents.com

Title: Parenting Toddlers Author: Carmen Benton Date Published: N/D Why relevant and Summary: Because it is about parenting a toddler. How this influenced my thinking: Leaned different skills to parent a toddler. Credibility of source: Different sources cited

Title: Using Toys to Support Infant-Toddler Learning and Development Author: Gabriel Guyton Date Published: September 2011 Why Relevant and Summary: This article discusses how caregivers can select and even make (using random household materials) age appropriate toys to support and enhance cognitive development. The author encourages finding toys that support development across all domains - cognitive development, fine motor, gross motor, language, etc. How this influenced my thinking: When I first sat down to right the short critical thinking assignment on cognition and toys, it did not even occur to me to write about home-made toys such as a simple first puzzle made out of a muffin tin and some small objects, yet in reality, things found around the house make some of the best toys - ones that really engage babies and toddlers and are truly beneficial to child development. Credibility of source: This article is from the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), thus seems highly credible.

Title: Using Toys to Support Infant-Toddler Learning and Development Author:Gabriel Guyton Date Published: September 2011 Why Relevant and Summary: This article shares about toys useful to child development, along with presenting a graph showing what toys are most appropriate and beneficial at each age. How This Influenced My Thinking: This article gave clear and concise information as to what development is occurring and at what age. Credibility of Source: 7- Published by the credible agency, NAEYC (National Association for the Education of Young Children)

Title: Imaginative play Author: Penelope Leach Date Published: n.d. Why Relevant & Summary: Written by childcare expert and author Penelope Leach. While your toddler is learning to sort and group objects, to manipulate them by hand, she is also becoming able to imagine objects and pretend their behavior. Relevant in the discussion of what is important in raising a toddler for optimal brain development. How This Influenced My Thinking: Explained the various important forms of play for a toddler effectively. Credibility of Source: Great

Title: Social Development Author: Growing Miracles Date Published: 2010 Why Relevant and Summary: It's relevant because it talks about the social development and all the aspects of what a toddler learns in this stage of life. It talks about communicating, sharing, putting the child in home settings and setting limits for the child. How This Influenced My Thinking: It influences my thinking because it makes me want to go back to when my children were small so that I can teach them differently than how they were taught. Credibility of Source: I think it's credible because even though it was reprinted with permission, the information is similar to that of research.

Title: Your child's development: 30 to 36 months Author: Rebecca Parlakian and Claire Lerner Date published: 2008 Why relevant and summary:This article is relevant because it gives highlights of what occurs between 30 to 36 months in a toddler. Toddler can now pedal trycicles and dress themselves with help. They also use language to express themselves. They have a better memory and love to play with other people. How this influenced my thinking:Well this stage is a great time to teach toddlers how to express their feelings properly and how to talk things out and take turns. Credibility of source:Very credible, as it is endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics

Title: Social, Emotional and Physical Development of Children Author: Pam Murphy Date Published: June 29, 2010 Why Relevant and Summary: This article is relevant because it offers brief tips on how to promote children social, emotional, and physical development. It explains why it is important to promote development for the toddler during early development. How This Influenced my Thinking: This influenced my thinking be giving me some helpful tips on to promote development in my own child. Credibility of Source: Found on LiveStrong.com

Title: Parenting your toddler's personality type Author:Diane Lore Date Published:n.d. Why relevant/Summary: This article explains the type of children's personality and how you should deal with them, as well as how to parent them without being rude. How this influenced my thinking: It made me realze that three are more ways to parent a child than the wasy that I was parented. Credibility: WebMD

Title:Outdoor Play Author: Johnson, Christie & Wardle Date Published: 2005 Why relevant/summary: This article is relevant because it throughly discusses the importance of physical activity to a growing toddler, specifically how outdoor play can aide in not only their physical development but how it can also be used as a tool for cognitive learning opportunities. How this influenced my thinking: This article opened my eyes to how outdoor play is not only providing play and physical activity for a young child but also many different learning opportunities that they may not experience otherwise. Credibility of Source: Very credible, the authors provided many examples as well as citations and references.

Title: 10 Ways to Raise a Grateful kid Author: Homa Tavangar Date Published: ND Why Relevant and Summary: This article is very helpful if one is doing Assignment 9 on "Parenting a Toddler". It gives several examples on how to make your child grateful for everything and in the process it also helps children to be more social and overcome shyness. How this influenced my thinking: This article was very helpful. I was aware of all of the examples but it definitely made me put in action the examples whenever I have a toddler, because I definitely want them to be well educated and respectful. Credibility of Source: This article seems credible, since it's from PBS Parents

Title:The Preschool Years: Physical & Cognitive Development Author:Robert Feldman Date Published:n.d Why Relevant and Summary: This is relevant because it talks about the physical aspect of a toddlers early development. As well as their brain development, what you can and should not do. How This Influenced My Thinking: This made me realize that toddlers and infants are so complex because they can be affected really easy and it can transition into adulthood. Credibility of Source:Seems pretty credible, the author works for prentice hall. It is also based off of another resource.

Title: Childhood Development in the Hispanic Culture Author: unkown Date Published:May 11, 2010 Why Relevant and Summary: It's relevant because it focuses on what the Hispanic culture finds as important when it comes to parenting a toddler, and their styles of parenting. How This Influenced My Thinking: This helped back-up my ideas. Credibility of Source: It seems credible. It has all the sources and links they used on the bottom of the page, as well as on the images and videos used.