Let’s Just Play! Dr. Housman in Exchange Magazine
Imaginative and creative play is important for every child. Having fun exploring and discovering their world whether indoors or outdoors is essential in developing the foundation for social, emotional, and cognitive skills.
How our emotions unite us all: the power of emotions in the classroom-Dr. Housman for the himama Early Childhood Education Blog
All adults and children have and experience emotions. Emotions are universal. Even though we think differently, act differently, look differently, and have different life experiences, we all have the common language of our emotions.”
Helping Children Understand and Celebrate Differences from a Young Age-Dr. Housman on The PreSchool Podcast
Children are born ready to learn with an insatiable curiosity and sense of wonder, oftentimes we make the assumption that understanding differences is engrained. While they begin to notice and question everything from the start, children have not yet formed their understanding and critical judgment of differences.”
Want quality child care? Pay and train workers like the pros they are-Dr. Housman’s Commentary on EdSource
To accomplish the moonshot goal of providing every family access to quality child care, we — the policymakers, business leaders and community members who all rely on child care — need to seriously consider how we support the field and the providers and educators who make it run every day. We need to fix the […]
Parent-Teacher Relationships: The Key to Back-to-School Success: Dr. Housman’s Blog Post for Big Heart World
Over my 30 years in education, research, and child psychology, I have seen the powerful impact strong parent-teacher relationships have on children.” Children are heading to school this fall, many for the very first time. Although the pandemic was an emotional rollercoaster for children and families, there is a silver lining: parents and teachers developed […]
$611 Million Plan Doesn’t Do Enough For Our Youngest Children, Or Their Teachers
Time is not a renewable source, and we can’t recover the last 16 months. But going forward, we should invest in child care and early childhood education, not exclude it.”