This is a practical guide to user-friendly and purposeful record-keeping. It includes activity ideas, sample records and tips on organisation, and is the first book in the series "0-8 Years: The First Phase of Living" which provides a multi-professional approach to early childhood education and practice. It is suitable for anyone involved in the education of under-eights: parents, teachers and other professionals, and is written by a nursery teacher and the series editor of "0-8 Years: The First Phase of Living". Tina Bruce is also the author of "Early Childhood Education" and "Time to Play".