Keyword: Health
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Vision Development
These resources provide information about vision development in young children.
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Community Resources for Illinois Families
This list provides information about community resources for families in Illinois.
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Dental Health for Babies and Young Children
Strong baby teeth are essential to a child’s health. Families can help promote healthy dental care habits and prevent childhood tooth decay.
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Nutrition for Young Children
This list contains resources to help providers address nutrition for young children.
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Caring for Children with Asthma
This list of resources is helpful for parents, caregivers, and teachers who are caring for children with asthma.
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Parenting During a Pandemic
On this podcast, we are joined by Christy Lee, mother to four children, two with Down syndrome. Christy shares with us some tips for parenting during the pandemic on topics such as schooling, shopping, and home life.
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Asthma: Easing the Wheezing
Asthma causes the airways to swell, tighten, and fill with mucus. Asthma episodes can be life-threatening.
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Childcare During COVID-19: Two Parents’ Perspectives
On this podcast, we talk with Haley and Bob about the impact of COVID-19 on childcare and their family. These parents have three young children who attend the Child Development Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This podcast is the third in a three-part series on childcare during COVID-19. Part 1 focuses on…
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Childcare During COVID-19: A Teacher’s Perspective
On this podcast, we talk with Kathryn Pannbacker about the impact of COVID-19 on childcare and her work as an early childhood educator. Pannbacker is a preschool head teacher at the Child Development Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Childcare During COVID-19: A Director’s Perspective
On this podcast, we talk with Dr. Brent McBride about the impact of COVID-19 on childcare from a director’s perspective. Dr. McBride is the director of the Child Development Laboratory and a professor of human development at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Caring for Children with Food Allergies
A collection of food allergy resources
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What If … Questions About Face Coverings from the Child’s Perspective
Use these slides one at a time or as a full set, to teach children how to handle stressful situations.
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Keeping Healthy and Safe: Play Time
Young children are learning that sometimes, sharing toys and supplies is not helpful. Adults can support them with simple explanations, visual supports, and practice.
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Keeping Healthy and Safe: Fighting Germs
Young children are learning the importance of clean hands and clean environments. Adults can support them with simple explanations, visual supports, and practice.
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Keeping Healthy and Safe: Smaller Group Sizes
Young children are attending programs that may have smaller groups or different groups. Adults can support them with simple explanations, visual supports, and practice.
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Keeping Healthy and Safe: Face Coverings
Young children are learning to wear face coverings and to see others wearing them. Adults can support them with simple explanations, visual supports, and practice.
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Keeping Healthy and Safe: Physical Distancing
Young children are learning to sit or stand six 6 feet apart from each other, when possible. Adults can support them with simple explanations, visual supports, and practice.
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Getting Your Child Ready to Return to Childcare
Along with most states in the country, Illinois experienced a shelter-in-place order for several weeks and then started a phased reopening. For many families, this meant their young children did not attend childcare or preschool programs for an extended period of time. If they did keep attending childcare, practices at their childcare centers likely changed.
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Returning to Childcare During COVID-19
Families returning to childcare during the COVID-19 situation may have many questions and concerns.
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Returning to Early Childhood Programs During COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed our lives. Our routines have been changed. We have been unable to see our loved ones. We are concerned for our health and the health of others. As children and families slowly transition back to work and child care, families and caregivers may have concerns about how to best…
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Keep Young Children Learning at Home During Trying Times
Many families with young children are seeking resources about learning at home with young children as the COVID-19 situation evolves in our communities. This is a trying time for programs and families as they work together to keep young children safe, healthy, and learning.
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Learning at Home During Trying Times
Many families with young children are seeking resources about learning at home with young children as the COVID 19 situation evolves in our communities. This resource list provides information from the Illinois Early Learning Project and other reliable sources to help during this time.
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Physical Development and Health
This section of guidelines describes how infants and toddlers learn to move their bodies, take in their world through their senses, and carry out self-care routines. This section also explains how physical skills progress through development as young children’s bodies grow stronger and more able to move purposefully and with ease during everyday play and…
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Household Safety: Poisons and Other Hazards
This list contains a variety of resources associated with keeping your home safe for young children.
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Going to Kindergarten?
Getting required health checks, practicing key skills, and visiting your new school can help your child make a smooth transition.
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Preschoolers’ Nutrition and Fitness
This list contains a variety of resources associated with nutrition and fitness for preschoolers.
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Preventing Childhood Obesity
This list contains a variety of resources which can aid teachers, parents, and caregivers in the prevention of obesity in young children.
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Immunizations: What Parents and Caregivers Need to Know
This list contains a variety of resources associated with immunizations and what parents and caregivers should know.
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Supporting Resilience in Children Exposed to Domestic Violence
This list contains a variety of resources associated with supporting resilience in children exposed to domestic violence.
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Healthy Teeth! Early Brushing and Early Visits to the Dentist
Do you remember your child’s first tooth and how it changed her smile? That first tooth is also a reminder to start good dental habits.
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Please Pass the Water
Maddie demonstrates that the children at this center are comfortable with pouring their own drinks at snack.
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SIDS: Back to Sleep
Losing a baby to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is a tragedy that devastates parents, family members, friends, and others who care for the child.
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Healthy Children Eat Right
Good nutrition is basic for supporting preschoolers’ healthy growth while avoiding obesity.
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Teaching Children to Avoid “Stranger Danger”
How can we teach children to be wary of strangers but not to be overly fearful?
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Eyes Right! Your Child’s Vision
Parents and teachers need to be aware that a child might not know if his/her vision is normal.
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Do You Hear What I Hear?
Temporary or permanent hearing loss may be present at birth or may follow frequent ear infections, injuries, or disease.
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Things to Do While You’re Waiting: Physical Activities
How can you help your child find a little freedom of movement in a confined space?
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Eyes Right! Find Amblyopia Early
Any condition that causes the brain to favor one eye and ignore the image in the other may cause amblyopia.
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What Is Developmental Screening?
The first step in gathering information about a child is to complete a developmental screening.
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Fight Germs! Wash Your Hands!
Washing your hands often and well is an easy way to help prevent the spread of many infections.
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Physical Fitness for Preschool-Age Children
Childhood obesity has tripled in just 20 years. Preschool-age children who are inactive risk becoming overweight in the future. The U.S. Surgeon General says daily exercise is a key to being fit.
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Physical Development and Health Lesson Addressing Benchmark 23.B.ECb
The classroom’s pretend grocery store is a popular play area. In other adapted lesson plans, the children have taken a field site visit to a local grocery store and reflected upon their trip with photos (16.A.ECa), learned a silly song about grocery stores (25.A.ECc), and built a pretend grocery store where they exchanged money for…
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Outdoor Play: Weather or Not
Teachers know the many ways children benefit from outdoor play. But when should the weather keep them indoors?
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Pets and Young Children
Consider safety as well as benefits when deciding if it’s time for a pet in your family.
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Immunizations: A Guide for Parents
In addition to protecting the individual child, high vaccination rates protect communities by slowing or stopping the spread of disease.
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Protecting Children from Preventable Disease
Here are some answers to questions that Illinois parents often ask about immunizations.
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Eating Right = Healthy Children
Good nutrition is basic for supporting preschoolers’ healthy growth while avoiding obesity.
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Physical Fitness for Toddlers
Toddlers can keep us so busy that we might think they will always be physically fit. But toddlers who get used to an inactive lifestyle are at risk for obesity later in life.
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Lice Aren’t Nice!
Oh, no, your child has lice!
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ZZZs, Please! Bedtime for Preschoolers
Although there isn’t one sure way to raise a good sleeper, the key is to try from early on to establish healthy bedtime habits.