A Tribute to Alice Sterling Honig

Longtime 强奸视频 book author and advocate Dr. Alice Sterling Honig passed away on March 7, 2023. She was professor emerita of child development at Syracuse University and program director of the Children鈥檚 Center,听a pioneer enrichment project serving infants and young children and their families in Syracuse. She published numerous articles, books, and videos for parents and caregivers and lectured widely in the United States and abroad.
Over the past twenty years, Alice published several books with 强奸视频 and served as editor of the Research in Review section of Young Children. Alice鈥檚 most recent book (Day-to-Day the Relationship Way: Creating Responsive Programs for Infants and Toddlers, 2020), which she coauthored with colleague and friend Donna Wittmer, was a continuation of Alice鈥檚 work as a scholar, researcher, and advocate for all children. One reviewer said of the book, 鈥淗onig and Wittmer approach teaching and caring for our youngest learners听with equal doses of love and science, with a deep respect for families.鈥 This statement echoes Alice鈥檚 approach to her many years of work for young children鈥攊t was always based in love and connections.
Part ballad to nature and part irresistible invitation to teachers, Alice鈥檚 book Experiencing Nature with Young Children was an extension of one of the hundreds of presentations she made to early childhood educators. In it, she pulled back a curtain on children鈥檚 souls to encourage us to see what she so easily perceived. For example,
鈥淥utdoor activities are one way to help children who have difficulty with self-regulation learn to master their own emotions and take pride in self-directed activities. . . . If they tend to wander from one thing to another, they can let their attention wander occasionally outdoors; while daydreaming, they might hear rustling sounds in a tree or bush and spy a creature hidden there. Some children relate in a special way to butterflies who flit with such freedom from flower to flower; butterflies might feel like soul mates to those children who often restlessly move from one activity to another indoors.鈥
We are encouraged that Alice鈥檚 legacy will live on through the lives and programs of every educator and child she has touched.