Early Childhood Education

Understand and Foster Boys’ and Girls’ Early Childhood Development

• Attachment theory explained
• Why some boys seem to have less secure attachments
• Understanding insecure, avoidant and disorganised attachment issues
• Strategies for attachment formation
• Catering safely for high energy levels
• Providing adventure and exploration
• Some boys’ “flight and fight” reactions
• Girls’ “tend and befriend” patterns
• Redirecting physical and social aggression
• Coaching impluse control
• The importance of construction play
• How to channel super hero and heroine play
• Skills to foster imaginative games
• Lessons from Danish “Forest” ECE Centres
• Research from Australian and United Kingdom Early Childhood Education surveys
• Recent brain development findings

“Joseph gave me great strategies which I could implement the next day!”  Wendy Green, Teacher

“Joseph’s approach is well researched, yet very practical” Shirley McDonald, Director