Supporting Young Children with Death and Dying: A resource for families and teachers. Includes descriptions of feelings and behaviors young children might experience; strategies for talking with children about what’s going on; and book recommendations.

Social Stories: A guide for families. Does your kiddo have a transition or big event coming up in their life? Moving to a new house, getting a surgery, going on a long vacation, etc.? Custom-making a book to help them process the changes is surprisingly supportive for most young children, and way easier than it sounds.

Observing Your Child’s Challenging Behavior: A guide for parents and families. (PDF) This is a handy little tool for families facing challenging behaviors from their young child. It walks you quickly through the reasons that observation can be a helpful tool, gives some tips on how to do it usefully, provides some examples and a little tool for note-taking.

Ideas for the Sensory Table and Ideas for the Easel for preschool teachers. The sensory table and the easel are staples of the preschool classroom, and important tools for physical and creative development. But so often we find ourselves putting out the same things over and over again. No longer! With ideas from many resources and colleagues, I put these documents together as resources for preschool teachers. Feel free to print them, share them, whatever, as long as you credit me. Enjoy! And please contact me if you have ideas to add.

Coming soon: Book recommendations on gender; A guide for families to using social stories to help children process life events; and more! What resources would you like to see?