Resources for Families to Discuss the Election with Children
An Age-by-Age Guide to Talking About Voting With Kids: This guide provides tips on how to discuss voting with children of different ages, from preschoolers to high schoolers. It emphasizes making voting fun and relatable for young kids and encouraging critical thinking and engagement for older children.
How to Talk to Kids About Elections: A Guide for Parents: This guide offers strategies for parents to discuss elections with their children, including starting with basic concepts, asking questions, and fostering critical thinking.
Talking with Young Kids About Elections, Democracy and Justice for All: This resource provides book recommendations and activities to help young children understand elections and democracy.
Articles for Difficult Conversations:
Managing Emotions
Anger-sadness-fear- Showing emotions to our kids
Recommended Professionals
The ECE has built relationships with some outstanding professionals in fields related to Child Development. This is a great place to start when searching for resources for your child and family. The professionals listed below are familiar with our school programming and have worked with many of our TBH families. There may instances where the professional may recommend observing or working on site with a kiddo and we can accommodate that in most situations.
If you intend to reach out to one of these resources, consider emailing Claudine at cdouglas@tbhla.org so that she can be of assistance.
Naama Cameron- Parent Coach and Child Behavior Specialist
Naama is a Parent Coach and Child Behavior Specialist who partners with parents to help nurture loving, healthy relationships with everyone around them. She works with children in the home and in school settings.
Naamaparentcoach.com
818 618-2381
Sherri Elkaim- Speech and Language Pathologist
Sherri specializes in providing assessment and treatment for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers at risk for communication delay and with identified speech and language disorders. Her philosophy of practice includes play based therapy and parent/teacher coaching on an individual basis.
Stephanie LaPedis- M.S., C.C.C. Speech/Language Pathologist
Stephanie works with children 18 months-5 years with speech and language disorders related to Language, Articulation, Pragmatics, Autism, Feeding, Processing and Motor Planning.
Natalie Maddison- Developmental Psychologist
Natalie Maddison is a developmental psychologist with a background in educational psychology and DIR®- a relationship-based socio-emotional model. Natalie has extensive experience working with early intervention.
nataliemaddison@googlemail.com
Heidi Soussan- Occupational Therapist
Heidi focuses on child-centered, play-based techniques that support the whole-child and the family unit. Heidi’s approach is inclusive to all aspects of the child’s life, creating specific pathways of growth for each family she works with.