Supporting infants’ and toddlers’ resilience during daily transitions

Early childhood is a dynamic period of development and critical to a child’s long term social and emotional wellbeing. In their first five years, children experience numerous transitions – some transitions are ‘big’, and some are small, some expected and some unexpected. Often in practice we discuss the big transitions, but it’s the repeated small ones that create relationships and underpin the bond between parents/carers and the child.The busyness of day-to-day life can sometimes make it challenging for parents/carers to be emotionally available and find opportunities to connect with their infant or toddler. This webinar will explore ways practitioners can support parents/carers and educators to experience the world through the child’s eyes.Using a case study involving a childcare drop off, this webinar will focus on how practitioners can support educators and parents/carers to be responsive and consistent with infants and toddlers during daily transitions to promote their confidence and sense of security. Panellists will discuss three transition processes, including the rowboat metaphor, the negotiated goodbye, and preparing to launch.

This webinar will help you:

identify how infant and toddler behaviour is a form of communication
understand how changes in everyday moments of caregiving can build infant and toddlers’ confidence and sense of security
promote infant and toddlers’ sense of security, resilience and confidence during everyday separations, transitions and social interactions
understand how interdisciplinary coordination between parents/carers, early childhood educators and practitioners can promote infant and toddler social and emotional wellbeing.

This webinar will interest practitioners who work with infants, toddlers and their families, such as early childhood educators, child and family services, allied health workers, child and family nurses, paediatricians, infant mental health workers, adult mental health workers and family domestic violence services.