Real Answers to Everyday Challenges Solutions for Early Childhood Directors provides real-world answers for directors who work in the challenging yet rewarding field of early childhood education. Kathy Lee's extensive personal experience as a director and her years of training teachers and directors provide practical solutions to problems that arise every day. She addresses key issues such as training staff, handling discipline, dealing with parents, and creating partnerships in the community. For anyone who is a director or wishes to someday become a director, this book is the ultimate "can't-do-without-it" survival kit. Solutions include how to: advertise and recruit staff develop a mentoring system handle gossip address burnout handle special-needs children conduct parent orientation handle angry parents and many, many more!