Early Childhood Education, Development & Parenting Poster Index
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CHILD EDUCATION, DEVELOPMENT & PARENTING < social studies

Child Development refers to the physical growth, motor, language, emotional, social, cognitive and creative stages of children evolving into adults. Parenting is the guiding the child from birth to adulthood, usually done by the biological parents.

Children are naturally highly motivated to gain mastery over themselves and their environments, and the early years of life are decisive times for developing personal responsibility and respect for others which translates into the future of humanity.

NetPosterWorks gallery of child development and parenting posters include stages of child development, safety, health, discipline, parenting, and motivational images.

Quotes about Children ~
• “If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.” ~ Susan B. Anthony
• “The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization.” ~ L. Frank Baum
• “History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.” ~Thomas Carlyle
• “The parents always insisted on telling their child that their secret friends didn't exist — perhaps because they had forgotten that they too had spoken to their angel at one time.” ~ Paulo Coelho
• “To instruct calls for energy, and to remain almost silent, but watchful and helpful, while students instruct themselves, calls for even greater energy. To see someone fall (which will teach him not to fall again) when a word from you would keep him on his feet but ignorant of an important danger, is one of the tasks of the teacher that calls for special energy, because holding in is more demanding than crying out.” ~ Robertson Davies
• “If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they can’t imagine a different world, they are stumbling through a darkness made all the more sinister by its lack of reference points. For a young person growing up in America’s alienated neighborhoods, there can be no greater empowerment than to dare to speak from the heart — and then to discover that one is not alone in ones feelings.” ~ Rita Dove
• “How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.” ~ Alexandre Dumas, pere
• “Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and ask him if he's the One.” ~ Ernest J. Gaines
• “Wrong training can be a very innocent thing. Consider a father who allows his child to read good books. That child may soon cease to watch television or go to the movies, nor will he eventually read Book-of-the-Month Club selections, because they are ludicrous and dull. As a young man, then, he will effectually be excluded from all of Madison Avenue and Hollywood and most of publishing, because what moves him or what he creates is quite irrelevant to what is going on: it is too fine. His father has brought him up as a dodo.”
~ Paul Goodman
• “We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it.” ~ Dorothy Irene Height
• “Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.” ~ Robert Heinlein
• “There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk ‘his life, his fortune, and his sacred honor’ on an outcome dubious. Those who fail the challenge are merely overgrown children, can never be anything else.” ~ Robert Heinlein
• “The soul of the newly born baby is marked for life by the pattern of the stars at the moment it comes into the world, unconsciously remembers it, and remains sensitive to the return of configurations of a similar kind.” ~ Johannes Kepler
• “I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.” ~ Aldo Leopold
• “Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.” ~ Francois Mauriac
• “Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.” ~ Phyllis McGinley
• “The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda – a deliberated scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make ‘good’ citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.” ~ H. L. Mencken
• “Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.” ~ Plato
• “There is an adult in every child and a child in every adult.” ~ Jean Piaget
• “Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.” ~ Letty Cottin Pogrebin
• “My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school: So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. “Izzy,” she would say, “did you ask a good question today?” That difference — asking good questions — made me become a scientist.” ~ Isidor Isaac Rabi
• “If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.” ~ Samuel Richardson
• “Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
• “May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
• “Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.” ~ Arthur Rimbaud
• “The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.” ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• “Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.” ~ Saki
• “The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.” ~ Saki
• “Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.” ~ Friedrich Schiller
• “Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
• “But poverty, though it does not prevent the generation, is extremely unfavourable to the rearing of children. The tender plant is produced, but in so cold a soil, and so severe a climate, soon withers and dies.” ~ Adam Smith
• “If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.” ~ Tom Stoppard
• “School is established, not in order that it should be convenient for the children to study, but that teachers should be able to teach in comfort. The children’s conversations, motion, merriment are not convenient for the teacher, and so in the schools, which are built on the plan of prisons, ... are prohibited.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
• “Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Educate the Whole Child, Poster
Educate the
Whole Child,
Poster

Child Development Posters

Building Block set of 6 posters illustrating areas & stages of child development,

Effective Discipline Poster

Discipline Posters

The word discipline comes from the Latin disciplina “instruction”, from the root discere “to learn,” and from which discipulus “disciple, pupil” derive. ...

Get Moving Laminated Poster
Get Moving
Laminated Poster

Fitness Motivation Posters -

Physical fitness, defined as “the body’s ability to function efficiently and effectively in work and leisure activities, to be healthy, to resist hypokinetic (low activity) diseases, and to meet emergency situations.”

Safety Posters

Kitchen, school, playground, health

Taking Temperatures, Laminated Poster

• health posters

10 Principles of Parenting, Laminated Poster
10 Principles
of Parenting,
Laminated Poster

10 Principles of Parenting

1- What You Do Matters
2- You Can Not Be Too Loving
3- Be Involved in Your Child's Life
4- Adapt Your Parenting to Fit Your Child
5- Establish Rules and Set Limits
6- Help Foster Your Child's Independence
7- Be Consistent
8- Avoid Harsh Discipline
9- Explain Your Bules and Decisions
10- Treat Your Child With Respect

Ga! Conversations with Baby,
Laminated Poster

Ga! Conversations with Baby-

Holding intelligent conversations with your baby ... Speak slowly ... Mommy, daddy, tree, duck ...Don't use pronouns ... Pause & Listen ... Make eye contact ...

Pregnancy and Birth Anatomical Chart

Pregnancy and Birth Anatomical Chart
Illustrates anatomy of mammary glands and infant within mother. Shows fertilization; implantation and trimester; fetal development. Discusses genetic screening and hormonal changes during pregnancy. Shows and describes the three stages of labor.

• more pregnancy anatomy posters

Maria Montessori, portrait by Ernst Ulmer

Maria Montessori - Global PathMarker Fine Art Print
“Within the child lies
the fate of the future.”
b. 8-31-1870, Italy

available only at-
Creative Process

• Famous People in the Montessori movement posters
• Women Scientist posters

Reading is Fun Alphabet Poster

• more alphabet posters
• see Historic Reading posters

“If a Child” Poem, Matted Print

“If a child lives with criticism,
he learns to condemn.
If a child lives with hostility,
she learns to fight.
If a child lives with ridicule,
he learns to be shy.
If a child lives with shame,
she learns to feel guilty.
If a child lives with tolerance,
she learn to patient.
If a child lives with encouragement,
she learns confidence.
If a child lives with praise,
he learns to appreciate,
If a child lives with fairness,
she learns justice,
If a child lives with security,
he learns to have faith,
If a child lives with approval,
she learns to like herself,
And if he lives with acceptance and friendship,
he learns to find love in the world.”