This updated classic offers hundreds of tested solutions for the tricky problems, questions, and concerns that are part of every early childhood professional's day.

New topics include:

• Helping children deal with traumatic life events
• Developing a curriculum
• Working with mixed-age groups
• Creating partnerships with parents
• Children who are ill and other health concerns including allergies, anaphylactic shock, asthma, and head lice, etc.
• Using computers in the early childhood environment

Each chapter also includes an updated resource list, including several useful websites. For beginning and experienced teachers alike, this 'how-to' book on centre management is like having your own counsellor in the room. An essential resource for all early childhood services.

This book was worth waiting for.
Ellen Galinsky, co-president, Families and Work Institute

The book provides great ideas for problem solving that can be adapted to the needs of your service and the way you work with children. The content and layout of the book provides quick access to topics and specific reading material for all the staff working in early childhood services.
Susan Clark, Australian author of Practical solutions to practically every problem: The early childhood teacher's manual (revised edition)

Steffen Saifer is the director of the Child and Family Program at the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory in Prtland, Oregon. He is also on the faculty of Portland State University where he conducts research on effective interventions for helping children with challenging behaviours.

Susan Clark has had a varied career in the early childhood industry. Sue worked as a teacher/director of a 60 place preschool for 17 years and was a director of a company providing training and inservice to the early childhood sector for 10 years.