Better Kid Care

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Better Kid Care's On Demand distance education system provides professional development online anytime you are ready to learn! Review the course list and read frequently asked questions.

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May 12, 2025

Keeping Your Cool: Heat Awareness and Solutions

Rising heat temperatures are occurring more frequently and lasting longer. Extreme heat awareness falls under the larger umbrella of climate awareness. Climate awareness is understanding how the effects of a changing climate—the long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns—impact children and how we can ensure children’s healthy and equitable development.

May 12, 2025

Use the Head, Heart, and Hands (and Green Muscle Memory!) to Love and Care for Nature

Educators and families can gently guide children to develop a love for nature and begin to understand how to care for and protect the natural world.

May 12, 2025

Positive Guidance: A Pathway to Reduce Biting Behavior

Many educators understand these scenarios: A 2-year-old in your class moves quickly from playing calmly with a friend to attempting to bite the friend and grab a toy, or as you are playing with several 1-year-olds in your class, a child moves from sucking her fingers to biting another child.

April 17, 2025

What does this have to do with childcare?

That’s what some learners asked as they completed the “Nature Sketching Builds Strong Observation Skills” course. Others, particularly those working with toddlers and infants, occasionally remarked something like “Sketching doesn’t help my age group. I work with infants.”