Infant-Toddler Education Is Not

• Infant-Stimulation, or doing things to babies with the aim of stimulating their senses, is not a focus of this book's approach to educating infants and toddlers.
  
  
• Baby-sitting, or just watching out for very young children to keep them safe, ignores the need for trained infant care teachers who understand how care and education go together.
  
  
• A preschool model, especially one where the educational focus of the day occurs only during circle time and when specific activities are available for the children.
  

Infant-Toddler Education Is

• Built on a foundation called curriculum, which is a plan for learning.
  
  
• The ways in which trained adults focus on and appreciate the problems that infants encounter in daily living in a rich and responsive environment.
  
  
• The means by which trained adults plan for, support, and occasionally facilitate problem solving, but only when infants show they need help.
  
  
• The roles that trained adults take in order to support problem solving in infants by determining optimum stress levels, providing appropriate attention, providing appropriate feedback, and modeling behaviors they wish to see in the children.