Understanding how children grow, learn, and think helps adults
and children live more harmoniously together. This thorough
revision of Constructive Guidance and Discipline: Preschool and
Primary Education continues to provide the information to help
children to become happy, responsible, and productive people.
With a strong emphasis on developmental theory and
constructivism, the book explains underlying causes for child
behavior, weaves numerous preschool and primary classroom
examples throughout, and includes three chapters on guiding
children with special physical or emotional needs, learning
disabilities, or children who are at risk due to poverty,
violence, or loss. The book is practical in its approach and
focuses on how many effective early childhood education
practices can prevent or alleviate many common discipline
problems. The authors reason that rewards and punishments do not
work and that children must learn to make their own decisions
based on their own values and convictions. Children are profo