Publications are also available from The Early Childhood Connection. Click here for a printable order form, or contact the Center for Research on Women's publications office at 617-283-2510 or The Early Childhood Connection at 1-800-789-6379.

Publications include:

• Responding to Young Children's Drawings and Paintings
  by Carolee Fucigna.
  Responding to young children's artwork in a meaningful way can often be a real challenge for parents and child care providers. This paper provides some developmentally appropriate guidelines for talking to preschoolers about their art. 1995. 2pp. $4.00 Project Paper 01

• TV's Youngest Viewers: Infants, Toddlers, and Television
  by Nancy Mullin-Rindler and Carolee Fucigna.
  Based on research, this paper offers information and guidelines for parents and child are providers about television, infants, and toddlers. The authors discuss issues such s deciding what is appropriate programming for very young children, the amount of elevison viewing for this age group, and the development of healthy viewing habits. 1995. 7pp. $5.00 Project Paper 02

• Language Development from Birth to Six Months
  by Wendy Wagner Robeson.
  The stages of language development that infants pass through before they utter their first word are discussed. Activities that adults and others can do to promote and encourage early communication efforts in infants and why they enhance development are given. 1996. 7pp. $5.00 Project Paper 03

• Women's Experiences with Maternity Leave
  by Nancy L. Marshall.
  This paper is a report of the results of the study conducted in 1991 by the Center for Research on Women, with Working Mother magazine, of over 4,000 women, most of whom had returned to work by the time their baby was one year old. The paper provides information on women's experiences with maternity leave, or time off after the birth or adoption of a child, their reasons for returning to work, and their experinces at work after their return. 1995. 5pp. $5.00 Project Paper 04

• Managing Work and Family: Steps Towards a Better Balance
  by Nancy L. Marshall.
  This paper is based on research on work and family issues, and on the experiences of THE EARLY CHILDHOOD CONNECTION staff. The paper includes a self-administered survey to determine how a reader's work-family stresses compare to other parents, as well as ideas about how to manage work and family. 1995. 6pp. $6.00 Project Paper 05

• Books for Boys and Girls Today: An Annotated Bibliography of Non-sexist Books for Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers
  by Carrie Spillane and Maureen Crowley.
  This book list for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers also includes publisher information for each book. 1996. 25pp. $8.00 Project Paper 06

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