Tackling Important Topics with Toddlers

12/16/2020

Tackling Important Topics with Toddlers

Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.
Veronica Roth

From the Foreword by Ann Pelo and Margie Carter to the wonderful new book by Nick Terrones, A Can of Worms available for pre-sale:

“A two-year-old and her teacher, Nick, lie on their bellies eye to eye with a worm. The toddler, Paige, tries to fit the worm into an organizational system —male or female, boy or girl.

She asks, ‘Does the worm have a penis?’

Her question hangs in the air while Nick gulps and collects his thoughts, aware that this question could carry them into intimate considerations. ‘How much should I say? How little?’ he wonders. And he finds his answer in ‘one of my highest values, which is to honor children’s thinking by ... responding honestly.

I decided to stick with Paige and her curiosity, her desire to understand, rather than let my anxieties stifle the conversation.’”

Join Nick Terrones for an ECI Webinar (free to you, sponsored by Exchange Press), Fearless Conversations With Toddlers: How to Open a Can of Worms With Little Ones, on Wednesday, January 13 at 2 PM Eastern.

Jonti-Craft - Walk-through our virtual classroom.

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