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Child Development
The Child Development section of the Resource Center provides you with articles and information for use in your daycare business.

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Helping Children Learn Important Self-Help Skills
Helping a child develop self-help skills is an important element in building positive a positive self-image. These steps can help you in this process.

Discipline: Tips and Techniques
Almost every adult has, at one time or another, been confronted with the challenge of disciplining a young child.

The Stress of Shyness: Understanding Various Child Anxieties
Many children feel anxiety when they enter into new social situations. For some, an abnormal condition of shyness can last a lifetime.

Teaching Limits
How can you set rules and have them stay set? Six suggestions are presented.

When Children Disobey You
One of the occasional difficult times of being a day care provider is dealing with kids when they refuse to behave.

Learning to Read: Opening the World to Your Day Care Kids
There are a number of steps which you can take to inspire children to explore the world of reading.

Mad is Not Bad: Helping Children Deal with Their Emotions
Children face special needs in responding to their feelings and emotions. What can child care providers do to promote positive growth as children confront their emotions?

THelping Trust Happen: Suggestions for Building Children's Trust
"Trust" is an important ingredient in any relationship, and that includes the relationship between a child and that child's day care provider.