This week I talk to Dr Jackie Musgrave, Programme Lead of Early Childhood at the Open University. Below are links to the courses and literature mentioned during today's podcast

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/openlearn/education-development/supporting-childrens-mental-health-and-wellbeing/content-section-overview?active-tab=description-tab

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/supporting-physical-development-early-childhood/1?domain=futurelearn.com

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Water-Babies-Collins-Classics/dp/0007449461/ref=sr11?crid=1EM41TQMOYRJO&dchild=1&keywords=the+water+babies+by+charles+kingsley&qid=1618584253&sprefix=The+Water+Babies+%2Caps%2C155&sr=8-1

In today's podcast, we chat with Laura England about the differences between Provocations and Invitations. Laura is a nursery manager as well as an author, trainer, and passionate Early Years advocate. Below are the links discussed in today's show.

https://www.facebook.com/Littlemissearlyyears/

https://www.instagram.com/littlemissearlyyears/?hl=en

https://twitter.com/littlemisseyt

http://www.bookseducation.co.uk/looking-learning-book-pack-p-3412.html

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Today I am joined by Dr Helen Perkins. Dr Perkins is a Senior Lecturer in Childhood & Family Studies and is Joint Course Leader for Early Childhood Studies at the University of Wolverhampton. She is here to talk to us about her research with the London Early Years Foundation focussing on Men in Childcare. You can read a copy of the research here: https://leyf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Men-in-Childcare-stage-2-Final-v7-JO-HP-TE-compressed.pdf

Other links mentioned in today's podcast:

https://miteyuk.org/

http://www.meninchildcare.co.uk/

In this episode, I was joined by the lovely Nischa, the founder of Nischa Mindfulness. We had a chat about how to be mindful and happy, she shared lots of tips and some ideas for activities. To learn more about the work Nischa does follow her on social media - Facebook @nischamindfulness, Instagram - nischa_mindfulness or Instagram - happymindfulkids or you can contact her through her website http://nischamindfulness.com/. Nischa can deliver training sessions to you, your team, your parents, or the children.

In this episode, we talk to Korbalagae from Yassah-Rose Learning. She helps us to unpick some of the new terminologies in the revised development matters and early years foundation stage documents. The websites discussed in the podcast are NAEYC https://www.naeyc.org/ and Zero to Three https://www.zerotothree.org/ You can find out more about Yassah-Rose Learning at https://www.yassah-roselearning.com/