Potty Training Best Practices

This course will help you know when your child is ready for potty training. It will then help you decide on the method that will work best for your family, as well as set you up with tips for success.

Fit for Life

Fitness is essential for a happy and healthy life. This course will provide you with strategies and methods to improve physical fitness and incorporate movement activities with your child.

Digital Media Trends and Guidelines

Technology’s evolving quickly, and it can be difficult for parents to know what’s best when it comes to their child. This course teaches you about suitable media usage and the latest research on how digital media affects early childhood development.

Effects of Technology on Children

Technology’s evolving quickly, and it can be difficult for parents to know what’s best when it comes to their child. This course dives into the ever-evolving world of technology and the ways digital devices are reshaping modern childhood.

Use of Technology with Children

Learn about the ever-evolving world of technology and digital media and the ways in which devices are reshaping modern childhood.

Brain Development Basics

The human brain is a remarkable organ. This course introduces you to the basic parts and developmental processes in the human brain, as well as conditions that young brains need to develop to their full potential.

Promoting Brain Development

A human brain is a fascinating tool that is responsible for every movement we make, thought we think, and emotion we feel. There are specific things you can do to create an environment that is optimal for brain development.

How Young Children Learn

This course explores basic theories regarding the ways young children learn new behaviors and skills. The content of this course focuses on different theories in behavioral and developmental psychology, such as the work of Jean Piaget.

What is Growth Mindset?

This course provides parents with an understanding of the concept of a growth mindset. The course discusses the importance of establishing a growth mindset approach to learning at a young age.

Establishing a Growth Mindset Environment

This course provides you with a deeper understanding of the growth mindset. It discusses the importance of establishing an environment that helps your child establish a growth mindset.

Growth Mindset Activities

This course provides parents with an understanding of the concept of a growth mindset. The course discusses the importance of establishing a growth mindset approach to learning at a young age.

Fostering Listening Skills

Research shows that only 25% of adults listen effectively. Learn the necessary techniques to improve your child’s listening skills, which in turn helps their overall language development.

Promoting Language Development

Research suggests a child’s ability to use and understand words is directly related to their reading and writing abilities later in life. This course offers strategies to support your child’s conversation skills and vocabulary knowledge.

The Importance of Storytelling

Storytelling is an essential building block of literacy in early childhood. This course explains the benefits of storytelling and a number of story forms that are appropriate for your child.

Building Literacy Through Storytelling

Set your child up for literacy success from an early age. This course describes the benefits of storytelling in early childhood, and how it promotes basic literacy skills, self-expression, and critical thinking.

Best Practices for Storytelling

The ability to tell a good story is an important skill for interacting with your child. This course covers basic story elements and storytelling best practices.

The Development of Play

This course focuses on the development of play, which can be incorporated into most childhood activities. With a better understanding, parents can support children’s healthy, optimal development across all areas of learning.

Drawing Skills Development

This course explores the typical development of drawing skills, starting with scribbling. Parents will learn about the importance of drawing and appropriate ways to encourage children to engage in more drawing.

The Value of Pre-Math Skills

Before your child even learns to read numbers, they can learn the foundations of mathematics. You can focus on developing specific cognitive skills, including counting, sorting, patterning, sequencing, and problem-solving.

The Importance of Math in Early Childhood

A solid mathematical foundation is beneficial for your child’s success later in life. This course highlights why math is important for your child’s academic success, as well as what great math instruction looks like.

Teaching Math Through Play

Math is often a subject that many adults dread. But math isn't just worksheets and long division. This course will show you how to expand your child’s understanding of math in a fun way.

The Importance of Science

Studies have found that American students tend to lag behind students from other countries in math and science. As a parent, you can help your child be successful in science later in life by encouraging science skills from an early age.

What is STEM?

This course provides you with the tools and insights necessary to enhance STEM-related learning through the integration of a wide variety of activities.

Integrating the Arts and STEM

Art activities provide an excellent platform for introducing STEM concepts and developing STEM-related skills. This course will introduce you to the acronym STEAM and provide multiple activity ideas for bringing STEAM into your home.

Young Children and Stress

Stress is a part of everyone′s lives, including young children. This course is designed to help you understand the sources and symptoms of childhood stresses and help you help children cope.

Helping Children Manage Stress

Stress can be a motivating factor in our lives, or it can stop us in our tracks. This course will help you give your child important stress management skills at a young age.

Introduction to Childhood Trauma

Trauma can have a lasting effect on people of all ages. This course examines the impact of different forms of childhood trauma and explores ways that you can support children who have experienced trauma.

Resilience: Coping Skills for Difficult Times

Life is full of events, some joyful, some sad, and some seemingly impossible to get through. Whether a child is experiencing a challenging task, a bad day, or a traumatic event, they will need a set of skills to help them work through the situation.

The Effect of Divorce on Children

Divorce is a fact of life, and it can have dramatic, long-term effects on a child's development. This course will introduce you to the emotional, physical, and other divorce responses of infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and older children.

Helping Children Cope with Divorce

Going through a divorce is a challenging time for a family. With the right tools, you can help your child cope and provide essential nurturing and support. This course offers strategies you can use to help them through this difficult time.

Introduction to Grief and Loss

Grief and loss can be all-consuming for anyone at any age. This course will explore how children experience grief and loss.

How Young Children Experience Grief and Loss

This course will explore how a child between birth and 4 experience grief and loss. Being familiar with how children understand and process loss will help you support them through the grieving process.

How School-Age Children Experience Grief and Loss

This course will explore how children ages 5 or up experience grief and loss. Being familiar with how children understand and process loss will help you support them through the grieving process.

Helping Your Child Cope with Grief

In this course, you will explore recommended practices for helping your child cope with the death of a loved one and other associated losses.

Early Childhood Development: An Overview

Early childhood development is the first stage in a human’s lifespan. This course serves as an overview of your child’s physical, emotional, and intellectual development from birth to age eight.

Developmental Delights: Birth to 3 Months

During this stage of development, newborns begin interacting with the rest of the world. As a parent, it’s helpful to know what to expect. In this course, you will learn the characteristics of a newborn baby’s development from birth to 3 months.

Developmental Delights: 3 to 6 Months

Newborns learn so much from their environment and interactions with others. As a parent, it’s helpful to know what to expect during your child’s development. This course covers the characteristics of a baby’s development from 3 to 6 months.

Developmental Delights: 6 to 9 Months

At 6-9 months, infants do more physically, cognitively, and socially than in their first 6 months of life. It’s helpful to know what to expect at this age, and this course covers the characteristics of a child′s development from 6 to 9 months.

Developmental Delights: 9 to 12 Months

As infants approach their first birthday, there are many changes happening in their minds and bodies. It’s helpful to know what to expect at this age, and this course covers a child′s development from 9 to 12 months.

Developmental Delights: 12 to 18 Months

At this age, children learn new words and skills daily. It’s helpful to know what to expect during different stages, and this course covers early childhood development characteristics in children from 12 to 18 months.

Developmental Delights: 18 to 24 Months

At this age, children become more independent, confident, and bold. It’s helpful to understand the different stages and milestones, and this course covers the early childhood development characteristics in children from 18 to 24 months.

Developmental Delights: 2-Year-Olds

Two-year-olds become more surefooted, making it easier for them to explore the world. It’s helpful to understand your child’s different stages and milestones, and this course covers the early childhood development characteristics of two-year-olds.

Developmental Delights: 3-Year-Olds

Three-year-olds are eager to please and enthusiastic about learning. It’s helpful to understand the different stages of your child’s development, and this course explores the milestones of three-year-olds across all areas of development.

Developmental Delights: 4-Year-Olds

By age four, children have well-developed language skills, more advanced motor skills, and insatiable curiosity. It’s helpful to understand your child’s different developmental stages, and this course explores the milestones of four-year-olds.

Developmental Delights: 5-Year-Olds

Five-year-olds are gaining a grasp on their place in the family and society. They are aware of life’s ups and downs but still have difficulty dealing with their emotions sometimes. This course explores the developmental milestones of five-year-olds.