Extending the Dance in Infant and Toddler Caregiving: Enhancing Attachment and Relationships

This blueprint for promoting attachment and relationships in early childhood settings provides professional caregivers and educators a fine key to developing nurturing relationships with kids. From promoting relationship-based programs that keep teachers and kids together to encouraging connections, this is a fine early learning tool.

Even though INFANTS, TODDLERS, AND CAREGIVERS by Gonzalez-Mena & Eyer still stands as the definitive book on the youngest of young children, Raikes & Edwards' book takes the typical concepts in these special classrooms (parent/child interaction, parent/teacher interaction, continuity of care, etc.) and puts into the perspective of a dance. It's not a fast dance, but a slow, waltzy like movement in which the partners get use to each other at their own rate over time. It's an excellent way to view infant/toddler relations. I would definitely recommend checking this book out even if you decide not to buy it.