1. Growing up-growing older the professional early childhood educator

   • Carol Seefeldt

   Features Pages: 6 - 8

2. Encouraging children's early writing efforts

   • Carol Taylor Schrader
   • Stevie Hoffman

   Features Pages: 9 - 13

3. Legal implications of divorce and custody battles for day care administrators

   • Nora Palmer Gould

   Features Pages: 14 - 17

4. “We love Hawaii”... kids ride a rainbow of learning

   • Rose C. Merenda

   Features Pages: 18 - 21

5. Music across the curriculum: More than just circle time

   • Joyce Ury Dumtschin

   Features Pages: 22 - 25

6. Help! I'm selecting children's books

   • Jeane Sword

   Features Pages: 26 - 28

7. Young children teach themselves to read and write

   • Jerry Aldridge
   • Debra Rust

   Features Pages: 29 - 31

8. Play for young handicapped children in an integrated setting, part 1

   • Olivia N. Saracho
   • Bernard Spodek

   Features Pages: 32 - 35

9. Parents as partners

   • Judith Leipzig

   Columns Pages: 36 - 37

10. Finding alternatives to commercial toys

    • Harriet Hartman

    Columns Pages: 38 - 39

11. Parenting films

    • David L. Giveans

    Columns Pages: 40 - 41

12. The world according to mollie

    • William Ayers

    Columns Pages: 42 - 43

13. Rainy weather

    • Madalynne Schoenfeld

    Columns Pages: 44 - 45