Santomero Angela C - Preschool Clues

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Angela is carrying on Freds legacy with her work in childrens mediaa modern-day Fred Rogers.

Joanne Rogers

Angela Santomero is a bigger showrunner than Vince Gilligan, David Milch, and Judd Apatow combinedto a kid. The creator of Blues Clues , Super Why! , Creative Galaxy and yes, Daniel Tigers Neighborhood is the driving force behind the best educational programming for children.

Fatherly.com

Preschool Clues will be required reading in every course about child development, and it will be on every kid TV producers bedside table, but more importantly it brings great and fun parenting insights from the eyes of a thoughtful, child-centered, famous TV producer. Angela has watched more preschoolers react, learn, change, and laugh from interactions with TV.

Gerry Laybourne, media entrepreneur, cofounder of Katapult, cofounder of Oxygen Media, and president/leader of the team that created Nickelodeon

Leave it to the genius behind Blues Clues and Daniel Tigers Neighborhood , Angela Santomero, to translate her knowledge of child development research into the ultimate parenting book. It includes guiding principles and hundreds of easy and fun everyday activities parents and teachers can use to raise children to be thoughtful, caring, and truly engaged learners!

Ellen Galinsky, author of Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs

Angela Santomero reveals the elements that make her shows both entertaining and educational, and clues parents to do the same in their everyday moments with young children.

Joanna Faber and Julie King, authors of How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen

Children are active and children are curious. Angela Santomero, who has harnessed their curiosity with brilliant childrens television, has brought her creative instincts and solid developmental science to bear on how we can join and parent children in their world, which so seamlessly spans the physical and the digital. With this active, verb-driven, warm, and humorous guide, she offers clues to understanding and enjoying our young children while directing their endless energy toward their best selves.

Michael Rich, M.D., The Mediatrician, and director of the Center on Media and Child Health (CMCH), Boston Childrens Hospital

In this practical and research-based guide, Santomero, Blues Clues cocreator and creator of Daniel Tigers Neighborhood and other childrens TV shows, helps parents of preschoolers understand how to use media effectively and age appropriately.... Parents will find plenty of fresh ideas for raising smart, inspired, and engaged preschoolers in this wise and enthusiastic text.

Publishers Weekly

Fans of Blues Clues and Santomeros other popular childrens shows will enjoy her practical advice and conversational tone. Educators and parents will likely find a takeaway or two in this breezy, informative read.

Library Journal

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Cover art: Santo Studios LLC

Photo by: William Taufic

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Santomero, Angela C., author. | Reber, Deborah, author.

Title: Preschool clues : raising smart, inspired, and engaged kids in a screen-filled world / Angela C. Santomero with Deborah Reber.

Description: New York : Touchstone, [2018]

Identifiers: LCCN 2017030842 | ISBN 9781501174339 (pbk.)

Subjects: LCSH: Preschool children. | Toddlers. | Child development. | Child rearing. | Blues clues (Television program)

Classification: LCC HQ774.5 .S255 2018 | DDC 305.233dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017030842

ISBN 978-1-5011-7433-9

ISBN 978-1-5011-7434-6 (ebook)

To Greg, Hope & Ellawhen I was a preschooler and I played house I would dream you all upbut playing house for real is better than any dream. I love you more.

And to Fred Rogersfor being the premier influencer in the world of childrens mediaand my friend. I hope Ive made you proud.

Should preschoolers be watching television at all?

Watch TV, not too much, make it interactive and educational

Inspire our preschoolers to learn and grow

Playing Opens the Door to a Preschoolers World

Pausing Helps Preschoolers Find Their Voice

Repetition Leads to Learning and Mastery

Unlocking the Genius Within

Conflict Develops Grit, Coping Skills, and Strategies

Respectfully Communicating Builds a Preschoolers Self-Worth

Asking Preschoolers Will You Help Me? Develops Empathy and Confidence

Modeling Shapes Our Preschoolers Behaviors and Experience

Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary Can Spark Our Preschoolers Passion

Singing and Laughing Makes Parenting Easier

Celebrating the Small Things Grows Preschoolers Sense of Optimism and Intrinsic Motivation

Every minute of a preschool childs life is of enormous value. What children encounter and learn during those minutes shapes the developing brain with lifelong consequences. Todays preschool children spend many of those minutes with screen media, especially television and other forms of video. Are these minutes well-spent? Decades of research have found that the answer is both yes and no.