My 1st Year
The first year of a baby’s life is an exciting time filled with wonderful new experiences. "My 1st Year Baby Book" is designed to help you better understand your baby's development, recognize important milestones, and write about your experiences together.
Discovering Feelings
The "Discovering Feelings" booklet is designed to assist caregivers in helping to label a young child’s feelings.
Select from the roles below for information and tips about how you can use these booklets.
Mental Health Consultants
My 1st Year
Caregivers' daily interactions with babies lay the foundation for their long-term physical, social, emotional, linguistic, and cognitive development..
Mental health consultants can support caregiver practices by introducing and facilitating the use of this tool with providers and parents as an intentional and structured opportunity for skill-building and knowledge development.
Discovering Feelings
Use the "Discovering Feelings" booklet to:
- Introduce emotional vocabulary to a child
- Illustrate for children a range of emotions
- Validate the wide range of emotions experienced by children
- Assist children in linking emotional vocabulary with specific actions
Parents
My 1st Year
Parents' daily interactions with their baby lay the foundation for his or her long-term physical, social, emotional, linguistic, and cognitive development. Download "My 1stYear Baby Book" to help document your baby's first year of life.
Discovering Feelings
This tool offers parents a simple way to:
- Introduce emotional vocabulary to a child
- Illustrate for children a range of emotions
- Validate the wide range of emotions experienced by children
- Assist children in linking emotional vocabulary with specific actions
Head Start Staff
My 1st Year
"My 1st Year Baby Book" supports Head Start staff and other caregivers' daily interactions with babies. These relationships lay the foundation for children's long-term physical, social, emotional, linguistic, and cognitive development. Use this tool with families to document the early experiences of infants in your programs.
Discovering Feelings
The "Discovering Feelings" booklet offers caregivers a simple way to:
- Introduce emotional vocabulary to a child
- Illustrate for children a range of emotions
- Validate the wide range of emotions experienced by children
- Assist children in linking emotional vocabulary with specific actions
Last Updated: June 3, 2024