Brenda Hussey-Gardner, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Overview
Best Beginnings facilitates your delivery of anticipatory guidance by providing:
- A convenient charting process to help track and record both child development and the information and support provided to parents;
- A Binder of reproducible handouts linked to the Chart and offering families information on what to expect in their childŐs current and next developmental phases.
Best Beginnings addresses issues related to child development in each of the five developmental domains: cognition, language, motor, social-emotional, and self-help. It also addresses issues related to feeding, sleeping, guiding behavior, toilet training, and choosing a preschool. Best Beginnings is not an assessment or a curriculum - it is a tool that helps you, the professional, provide the best possible anticipatory guidance and information to families.
Best Beginnings can be used by any professional working with parents of infants and toddlers, including (but is not limited to):
early interventionists, service coordinators, therapists, pediatricians, nurses, social workers, daycare providers, and preschool teachers.
Best Beginnings offers a simple process for providing comprehensive, individualized, family-centered anticipatory guidance: ask/record and provide/record. First, you ask key questions from the Chart to determine what the family already knows and what their child is doing. As the family answers these questions, you record their responses. Through this process you identify and target areas for anticipatory guidance. Secondly, as target areas are identified, you provide verbal information and the handouts to address the needs of the family. Finally, you record the guidance you provide. To help you with this important process, Best Beginnings has two key components: the Binder and the Chart.
Benefits:
The Parent Questionnaires are one of two methods available for gathering family information. The other method is an interview Chart. Both include key questions for parents, a method for recording parent responses, and a process for documenting the information you provide. The questions cover key topics related to child development and parenting, and are designed to help you best understand what is happening at home.
The questions are grouped by topic. Most topics include more than one question. The specificity and depth of the questions is designed to help you gain sufficient information from the family to best provide that family with the anticipatory guidance needed. Research shows that asking general questions can lead to very global responses from parents. For example, the question "How are things going with sleep?" may be greeted with a response of "Fine." While more detailed questions such as "Where does your baby sleep? Does he sleep on his back? What time does he go to sleep at night? What time does he wake up in the morning? How often does he wake up at night?" provide a lot more information which facilitates the provision of the best anticipatory guidance possible.
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Title: Best Beginnnings: Parent Questionnaires
Author: Brenda Hussey-Gardner, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Product: #143, Binder of reproducible masters
Copyright: 2000
ISBN: 0-89718-248-0
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Quotes from Users
"All daycares should use Best Beginnings. It gives a personal touch with parents. Best Beginnings taught me so much! Now I can use the ideas in my center and share them with the parents."
-Daycare Proprietor
"An invaluable system for professionals in Early Childhood programs (Early Head Start, Parents as Teachers, Early Intervention) who work closely with families so they can better support these families in acquiring knowledge about child development and parenting."
EC Program Coordinator
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