From ricks at wccls.org Thu Jun 30 08:27:18 2011 From: ricks at wccls.org (Rick Samuelson) Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:27:18 +0000 Subject: [RFHF] Incredible Video on Parent-Child Interaction Message-ID: Hi gang, I saw this video at ALA... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apzXGEbZht0 It would make a perfect addition to early literacy trainings, showing a concrete example of how babies and children need to engage in back-and-forth interactions with caregivers to learn how to socialize, coordinate their emotions, and ultimately pick up the skills that are going to help them learn to read and understand what they read. It also helps to drive home why child-parent interaction is so much more valuable than child-TV interaction. Take care! Rick Samuelson, Youth Services Librarian Washington County Cooperative Library Services 111 NE Lincoln, MS 58A Hillsboro, OR 97124 (503) 648-9809 5# ricks at wccls.org "The clever men at Oxford Know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much As intelligent Mr Toad!" -Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From JodyW at wccls.org Thu Jun 30 09:18:36 2011 From: JodyW at wccls.org (Jody Westerman) Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:18:36 +0000 Subject: [RFHF] Incredible Video on Parent-Child Interaction In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <846402F7B20B0A4491C35045B30E848903EF00@WCCLSEXC10.wccls.lib.or.us> Rick, Thanks for that powerful visual! This research has been done time and again, with the same results. Would that we could share it with all parents. Jody From: Rick Samuelson Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 8:27 AM To: Youth Services Librarians; Kids-Lib; 'reading-for-healthy-families at listsmart.osl.state.or.us' Subject: Incredible Video on Parent-Child Interaction Hi gang, I saw this video at ALA... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apzXGEbZht0 It would make a perfect addition to early literacy trainings, showing a concrete example of how babies and children need to engage in back-and-forth interactions with caregivers to learn how to socialize, coordinate their emotions, and ultimately pick up the skills that are going to help them learn to read and understand what they read. It also helps to drive home why child-parent interaction is so much more valuable than child-TV interaction. Take care! Rick Samuelson, Youth Services Librarian Washington County Cooperative Library Services 111 NE Lincoln, MS 58A Hillsboro, OR 97124 (503) 648-9809 5# ricks at wccls.org "The clever men at Oxford Know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much As intelligent Mr Toad!" -Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: