http://www.zerotothree.org
ZERO TO THREE is a national, nonprofit organization that provides parents, professionals and policymakers the knowledge and know-how to nurture early development (zerotothree.org)
One thing that really caught my attention on the website is how many organizations that zerotothree supports. One of the big one’s is military families. There is an abundance of resources available from zerotothree to help military families cope as well as resources for others who are dealing with children that have parents deployed. This is so important and I have had a lot of experience working with military families. Children don’t understand what is going on and need a lot of help with transitions and care.
ZERO TO THREE is proud to support military and Veteran families. We work to increase awareness and collaboration throughout military and civilian communities so that professionals who work with parents and children can more effectively care for babies, toddlers, and their military-connected families. Our board books developed for toddlers, our informative booklets for parents, and our professional guides all focus on strategies to help strengthen the resilience of our babies and toddlers in military and Veteran families so they will have a strong start in life.
One of the major issues that zerotothree focused on this week is screen time for young children. I received an email with a downloadable flyer that explains the common myths about screen time. All screen time is not negative for young children but should be content appropriate, be time limited and parents or caregivers should attempt to be involved so that they can help the young children make connections to the world around them as the learn from the content (zertothree.org)
Click to access 5-myths-infographic.pdf
http://www.icrichild.org
International Child Resource Institute is a nonprofit organization that works to improve the lives of children and families around the world. We focus on early childhood care and education, children’s rights, empowerment of women and girls, maternal/child health, and grassroots community development. ICRI believes that we should only go where we are invited, and all of our programs advance local leadership and promote community collaboration. Since ICRI was founded in 1981, we have developed or operated over 300 programs in over 50 countries, all with the goal of empowering the village to raise the child (www.icrichild.org)
25 different countries and/or organizations have blogs that are linked to the International Child Resource Institute. Each blog has the latest work that that country or organization is currently involved in as far as world child advocacy. One of the current blogs posted by New Zealand discusses a world forum that will be occurring in early 2015 and a conference that will be the first of its kind
Architects, landscape architects, educators, and environmental advocates will gather March 11 – 14, 2015, to explore high-level universal principles necessary in designing effective and inspiring indoor and outdoor spaces for children.
They expect to have representatives from 25 different countries at this forum.
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I chose the same organization. They have a diversity of staff and I love their vision and work statement. I loved their public policy statement.
Hello Michelle
That’s great to know that Zero to Three support military and veterans families. It is such a blessing to know that there is organizations in different countries that supports our children and their families. Thanks for sharing.
Michelle,
Zero to Three has so much information. I didn’t even get into the support they provide for military and veterans families. I will be checking that section out this week. Also the forum in March 2015 to discuss universal high-level principles about indoor and outdoor play is much needed. In our precious course we discussed how recess and playtime is being eliminated from our early childhood programs because of the academic demand.
I love how supportive they are of military families! The article that you read on screen time seems very intriguing! That has been a topic of many discussions throughout my classes at Walden. My husband and I were just talking about buy a LeagFrog type of tablet for our two year old and add some developmentally appropriate games. But we also discussed how often she would use it and decided it wouldn’t be somewhere that she could just grab it and go. It would be monitored and we will try to interact with her as she uses it too. Is that an email that could be forwarded?
Zero to Three is a great organization. Its one of the popular sites and there is so much information. I have used many of their resources over the years.
Limited screen time is important, I never though to group all electronics as screen time. Even though you state that not all screen time is bad…I should be limiting how much time he spends with technology because he does watch TV.