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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: Attachment Theory - John Bowlby Author: Counseling Resource, http://www.counsellingtutor.com/ (YouTube) Date Published: 2011 Why Relevant and Summary: This video gives the history and overview of John Bowlby and his impact of attachment theory. Part 2 goes into Mary Ainsworth's addition to Bowlby's work. How This Influenced My Thinking: It helped me gain a better understanding of what occurs in development based on the 4 types of attachment. Credibility of Source: 7; gives credible references

Title- Mary Ainsworth Author- Saul Mcleod Date published-2008 Why relevant and summary- This site goes into depth about who Mary Ainsworth is, what she did for psychology, and how she came to develop her theory of secure attachment. The site gives a lot of information on the different attachment styles and what they mean, as well as providing a video that illustrates the different types of attachment. How this influenced my thinking- This influenced my thinking by allowing me to see how crucial of a role attachment plays in the development of children. Credibility of source- very credible and offers many citations

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- Piaget's theory of cognitive development author- Many published- 2012 why relevant- This webpage talks about Piaget's theory, assimilation and accommodation, and breaks down all the motor stages. how influenced-Although i did view other websites to learn more about Piaget's theory of development. I felt that wiki broke it down in a way that not many other sites did. I was able to see what was going on in each stage of development, and it even went further into explaining the substages and what they encompass. credibility of source- I checked what wiki was telling me against other, more credible websites so i feel that the info i got was credible, even if the site itself has a bad rep for being credible :)

Title:Visual Habituation and Dishabituation in Preterm Infants: A Review and Meta-analysis Author:Michael Kavšekand Marc H. Bornstein Date Published:2010 Why Relevant and Summary: Gives great detail regard habituation and dishaituation through a cognitive perspective and neurological perspective. Scientific. How This Influenced My Thinking: This gave a very in depth description of these terms and even compares these techniques across the life span. Credibility of Source: high

Title:Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD): the Hidden Dimension? Author:Nikolai Veresov Why Relevant and Summary:This is relevant to my summary because it includes and talks about the Zone of Proximal Development that Vygotsky & Rogoff talk and detail about. How This Influenced My Thinking:This made me realize that there is more to the Zone of Proximal Development. It is not just all about observations and study. It is interactions as well. Credibility:from academia.com, i would say it is pretty credible since it is on a "edu" website.

Title:Grasping Skills and Cognitive Ability Activities for Babies Author:Jennifer White Date Published:n.d. Why Relevant and Summary:Describes everything from grasping skills to cognitive development and why babies do what they do at certain ages. It is very descriptive and tells you why babies play with certain toys and how it affects their thinking. How This Influenced My Thinking:I know a lot more about how and why babies play with certain toys. Credibility of Source:Somewhat credible as seeing as there is an author and other links reguarding more information if needed.

Title:Wired for learning: promoting infant brain development Author:Kathryn Vaughn Date Published:nd Why Relevant and Summary:This article is relevant because it discusses ways to promote brain development in infants. Babies brains are made for learning. Brain development is based both on genes and the stimulation and care given to the infant. Parents should interact with their baby by talking to them. Use a high pitched voice. Let your baby explore their environment and play with your baby. How This Influenced My Thinking:It's amazing to know that with each experience a baby encounters, it only aids in brain development. Credibility of Source:It seems to be credible from an .edu site with plenty of references.

Title:What is a schema? Author:Kendra Cherry Date Published:n.d. Why Relevant and Summary:This article is relevant because it describes what a schema is. This goes into the discussion of cognition and toys and how infants learn from their environment. Children make schemas, how we organize and process information, in order to make sense of things. However, for children, assimilation and accomodation are necessary since they are constantly learning and can confuse things. How This Influenced My Thinking:Schemas are a good learning tool, but can also make learning difficult. It is important to be open minded in order to take in new information. Otherwise, a person's schema may be flawed. Credibility of Source:Credible from about.com with references.

Title: Mary Ainsworth and Attachment Theory Author: Richard Brodie Date Published: 2012 Why Relevant and Summary: This website has a good video that shows secure attachment with an infant and her mother. It also discusses the other types of attachment; Anxious-Ambivalent Insecure Attachment and Anxious-Avoidant insecure attachment. How this influenced my thinking: This web based article allowed me to get a deeper understanding of the three different types of attachment that Ainsworth studied. Credibility of source: website is secured by GeoTrust

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: ADHD Overview Author: Jacob Silverman Date Published: No date Why relevant and summary: This is a comprehensive overview of ADHD, the causes, symptoms, diagnoses, treatments and related disorders. There are also a number of other highly relevant articles that are easily accessible on this site. How this influenced my thinking: There is a lot of information about raising a child with ADHD. I've never had experience with this in regards to my own children, but as a former teacher I have been aware of the 'basics' for many years. There is so much to learn and understand on this topic, especially so that caregivers can be more understanding of individualized needs and be less likely to judge or treat children with ADHD differently. Credibility of source: This is a Discovery Health article. It may not be highly credible in it's own right, but likely pulled it's information from scholarly/medical/research based resources.

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: 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

"Even before we were born, we knew our mother's voice and could distinguish it from other voices." Title: Babies Recognize Mom's voice from the Womb Author: Lee Dye Published: May 22 2013 Why relevant and Summary: Great informative ABC article about research being done in China and Canada which show similar results on babies recognizing mothers's voice. How this influenced my thinking: I am very interested in brain development and learning. I am excited about researching learning and brain development in the womb. Credibility of source: very credible news station and research is cited.

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: ADHD Author: Nemours Date Published: 2013 Why Relevant and Summary: It defines ADHD, causes, and symptoms. How This Influenced My Thinking: I learned the symptoms and signs of ADHD. Credibility of Source: Seems credible because it is a foundation and has medical background.

Title: ADHD Author : Richard Kingsley Date: January 2011 Why Relevant and Summary: Complete overview of ADHD, causes, how to manage it, and tips on dealing with it. How This Influenced My Thinking: I feel like I can better recognize signs of ADHD after reading this Credibility of Source: credible-from kidshealth.org, I have found them to be very credible with their information.

Title: Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development Author: Kay C. Wood, Harlan Smith, Daurice Grossniklaus Date Published: 2001 Why Relevant and Summary: Explains Piaget's stages of cognitive development and describes educational implications. It also details what opponents of Piaget's theory have to say. How This Influenced My Thinking: Helps me understand how to communicate and teach preoperational children. Credibility of Source: High (Department of Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology, University of Georgia)

Title: ADHD Author: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Date Published: September 28, 2012 Why Relevant and Summary: Gave good research and medication information How This Influenced My Thinking: Good explanation of this diagnosis Credibility of Source: Very credible