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• Building Early Emotional Skills for Parents ONLINE

  Date: Mar 29, 2020
  Building Early Emotional Skills is a free eight-week workshop that helps parents and caregivers of children ages 0-3 to develop the skills needed to support the social and emotional development of their child.

• Building Early Emotional Skills for Professionals ONLINE

  Date: Mar 29, 2020
  Building Early Emotional Skills (BEES) for Early Childhood professionals is an opportunity to learn more about how children develop important social emotional skills, and how you can help them learn to understand and express their emotions appropriately.

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  Heads In, Hearts In: Feather Color Match

  Published on October 18, 2018
  In this activity, adults will encourage and support children as they practice their fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination by matching the colors of feathers to dots on a piece of plastic foam.

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  Fight Lead Effects with Learning and Play

  Published on February 11, 2016
  Positive early childhood experiences can help limit the effects of lead on kids.

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  Heads In, Hearts In: Alphabet Sand Writing

  Published on October 18, 2018
  In this activity, children will practice recognizing and writing letters in sand.

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  Heads In, Hearts In: Cupcake Counting

  Published on October 18, 2018
  In this activity, adults will encourage and support children as they practice their fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination and counting by placing the correct number of pompoms in the cupcake liner.

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  Heads In, Hearts In: Full Early Childhood Activity Book

  Published on October 18, 2018
  The Heads In, Hearts In family enrichment program encourages families to use their minds as a tool to expand their knowledge around a variety of topic areas. This packet contains all 15 early childhood activities.

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  Heads In, Hearts In: Feelings Mask

  Published on October 18, 2018
  In this activity, you will explore emotions with the child by creating a mask that represents a feeling or emotion.

• Family Book Sheets

  Published on September 18, 2013
  Using books in early childhood is a great way to link new concepts to ideas that children already understand.

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  Should you force your child to hug a relative?

  Published on November 14, 2017
  Learn these tips to help your child say goodbye without forcing them to hug or kiss relatives.

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  Helping children learn about emotions

  Published on April 1, 2016
  Mad, sad, happy, glad – we all experience a wide range of emotions every day. Learn more about how to help children with their emotions.

• MSU Extension awarded grant to support Flint families with early childhood programs

  Published on June 23, 2016
  Flint parents will have new resources for limiting the effects of lead exposure on their children thanks to a new MSU Extension program that will help them provide positive early childhood experiences.

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  The nine traits of temperament: Mood

  Published on May 2, 2018
  Understanding your child’s mood can help you understand and support your child.

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  Too many gifts for the holidays?

  Published on November 14, 2017
  Think of giving experiences instead of things to help make memories and build relationships.

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  MSU Extension receives national award for early childhood programming

  Published on October 3, 2016
  MSU Extension’s Building Early Emotional Skills program received top national and regional honors at the National Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences 2016 Annual Session Awards program in September.