Involving Parents in their Children's Learning

This book shows how early years practitioners can develop a worthwhile collaboration with parents. Drawing on their work with the parents and community at the renowned Pen Green Centre, the authors show: how to support parents as their child's first educator; how to provide practical and psychological support to parents; how to involve fathers and male carers; how to share important child development concepts; and how to support and extend children's learning; how to reach out to hard-to-reach p