Resources
Resources for Nurturing the Whole Child
Thoughtfully created resources for educators, families, and caregivers who want to nurture children’s emotional well-being, development, connection, curiosity, and sense of belonging.
From practical classroom tools and publications to curriculum, books, and music, TNCM resources are designed to help bring whole-child principles into everyday moments with children.
Free TNCM Publications & Guides
The Whole Child: A Developmental Guide to Understanding Children Beyond Their Birth Age
Explores the developmental work children are doing from birth through age twelve and helps adults meet children where they actually are, not simply where the calendar says they should be.
Books
The Nurtured Child — Second Edition
A research-grounded guide for educators and parents who believe that connection comes before correction. Explore how emotional safety, co-regulation, relationships, mindfulness, nature, and nurturing environments can help children regulate, reconnect, and flourish.
Curriculum & Educator Resources
Whole-child learning resources designed to support social-emotional development, relationships, regulation, play, mindfulness, nature connection, and meaningful early learning experiences.
The Nurtured Child Curriculum
A growing whole-child curriculum designed for early childhood classrooms, bringing together social-emotional learning, mindfulness, nature, relationships, regulation, creativity, and developmentally meaningful experiences.
IN DEVELOPMENT
Peace’s Pathways™
A Regulation Toolkit
A collection of child-friendly regulation tools designed to help children recognize what they feel, discover what their bodies need, and find supportive pathways toward regulation and connection.
Through emotion, breathing, sensory, movement, music, nature, and Cozy Corner tools, Peace’s Pathways gives children multiple ways to pause, explore, and discover what helps them feel grounded and supported.
COMING SOON
Music for Growing Hearts
The Nurtured Child Music
Original TNCM songs created to help children understand emotions, navigate everyday experiences, build connection, and feel supported through the moments that shape childhood.
From calming and regulation songs to music about friendship, feelings, belonging, nature, and new experiences, TNCM music gives children another way to explore the social-emotional world through language, rhythm, and connection.