Keyword: Safety
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Supporting Children Who Experience Community Violence
This list provides resources on how to support children and families affected by community violence.
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Household Safety: Medications
This list contains a variety of resources associated with keeping your medications safe from young children.
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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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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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Childproofing Your Home
As you welcome a new baby, prepare for toddlerhood, or relocate to a new home, it is important to provide a safe environment for your child. The resources below can help with that process.
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Keep Young Children Safe in the Car
Car accidents are the leading cause of death for young children in the United States. Remember these key rules to keep children safe:
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Try and Try Again (audio)
This podcast, based on a blog written by Dr. Rebecca Swartz, provides information about how adults can help young children develop persistence to try and try again when they encounter everyday challenges. To see the main text of the podcast, you can read the original blog post. Related IEL Resources Blog: Try and Try Again
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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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You Made It
This video takes place in the gross motor room of a university laboratory child care and preschool. This room is used for gross-motor activities by all classrooms in the center during inclement weather. Max (21 months) is trying to get up the climber, and the teacher helps him get to the top.
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The Step
The teacher provides Alicia with support to move the bolster and supervises her so she can safely use it as a step.
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Pea Pod Rockers
Max (21 months) and Kenyon (27 months) are near the pea pod rockers, attempting to climb onto them. The teacher steps in to assist Max in climbing onto the rocker. She offers guidance to him and is close to him as he tries to climb onto the rocker.
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Filling the Trains
This video takes place in a toddler room of a university laboratory child care and preschool. Daniel (25 months) and Sadie (26 months) are playing with trains and putting people back into their trains. The teacher is nearby talking with them, narrates their activities, and helps Sadie to see that she needs to put the…
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Fine Motor Skills and Safety
Automobile parts were placed in the sensory table as part of the children’s ongoing study of cars.
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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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Use Care, Imagination When Introducing New Snacks
Snacks are an important part of children’s daily nutrition. Children may eat a little one day and more the next day. Their eating may relate to appetite, familiarity with a snack, or sensory aspects of the food, known as “snack appeal.”
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Playing with Sticks: A Childhood Tradition
“It’s just a stick! You’ll find another one.” But the child knows that a good stick isn’t so easy to replace.
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Organized Sports and Young Children
Here are some questions to ask before you enroll your preschooler in a sports program.
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Preventing Lead Poisoning in Children
Any amount of lead is bad for your child. A little lead can do a lot of damage, especially to children under the age of 2.
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What Makes a Good Toy?
Here are some questions to keep in mind when you make decisions about toys for preschool children.