Learn how to safely incorporate touch in the early childhood setting and how to prepare children to confront troubling touch-related situations that may arise outside your setting. Following Acknowledgments, the book includes the following six chapters: (1) Taking a Look at Touch; (2) The Importance of Touch in Development and Learning; (3) Nurturing Children through Touch; (4) Teaching Children about Touch; (5) Concerns about Touch in Early Childhood Settings; and (6) When Children Have Touch-Related Special Needs. References, Resources and Appendixes are included.