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This paper describes a qualitative study of a successful, integrated childcare program for infants and toddlers of young mothers, its support of young at-risk mothers’ effective parenting, and its promotion of the ability in young children to self-regulate aggressive behavior. This program shows how caregiving practice can contribute to the modeling of positive social interactions that foster young children’s ability to self-regulate their use of aggression towards others.
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Options Daycare, Victoria Society for Educational Alternatives.
The names reported are pseudonyms; they are not the actual names of the infants/toddlers or caregivers.
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The researchers gratefully acknowledge funding from the BC Ministry of Children and Family Development through the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP). The views expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not represent the policy of HELP or the Province.
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Nicholson, D., Artz, S. Caregiving Strategies for Reducing Aggression and Violence in At-risk Mothers and their Babies. Child Youth Care Forum 35, 411–426 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10566-006-9025-8
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