Acknowledgment

The Young New Zealanders Foundation, Early Childhood Development and Kids TV would like to thank the following people.

Jo Ellis for her dedication and commitment to the development of this resource. Without her enthusiasm and belief in this project, the idea may never have become a reality.

Mary Phillips, for her expertise in the production of quality entertaining and educational children's programmes. Tim Cornelius for the illustrations.

Professor Anne Smith and Michael Gaffney of the Children's Issues Centre, for their support of the project and sharing their expert knowledge.

Professor Freda Briggs of de Lissa Institute of Early Childhood and Family Studies, University of South Australia, for both her expertise and support of the initial development of Amazing ME.

Suzy Cato for her belief, enthusiasm and plain hard work.

Shelley Ad for leading the development of the teacher and parent resources. Adele Hansen for her great work.

The community consultation group was made up of the following people:

The teachers' consultation group was made up of the following people:

Jude Soper		Lee Rowe
Jan Clarke		Karen Hurst
Heather Fagan		Angela Coutts
Debbie Preston		Rosie Adams

All of these people brought expert knowledge from their various fields of working with young children and their families and from their experiences of parenting. They spent many hours working on this resource.

The children, parents and teachers involved in the pilot study from Mornington Kindergarten for generously sharing their time and insights into the Amazing ME DVD.

Thank you.