I remember how I felt on the first day when I entered my internship. It wasn't the first time I'd been around small children, but somehow it felt different. I always thought that children were the easiest beings to communicate with and that I could easily understand them just by looking at how they behave. Unfortunately, I had so much I didn't know about them and was at a loss just to handle a crying baby. This booklet has been created for early years practitioners who are just starting out and aims to equip practitioners about children, early years documents and play. As an early years practitioner, there is a lot of information that is helpful to know. For example, the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework is a framework that all settings in the United Kingdom (UK) are required to provide to children and infants by the Department for Education. The EYFS ensures that all children learn and develop well and are kept safe and healthy to the statutory standards set for early years providers (DfE, 2012). The EYFS aims to provide a secure foundation that ensures all children make good progress in school and life, quality and consistency throughout the early years of life, partnerships between professionals and parents or carers and equal opportunities for all children (DfE , 2012). Secondly, the Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) document shows legal responsibilities towards children and their families and is an international human rights treaty that establishes a comprehensive set of rights for children and young people (OGL , 2014). The document contains 54 articles covering the health, political, civil, social, medical, economic and cultural rights of children. For practice...... half of the document......//www.unicef.org/crc/files/ Rights_overview.pdf (Accessed: 9 April 2014). George, F & Ellen, H (2005) Wondering with children: the importance of observation in early education. Available at: http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v7n2/forman.html (accessed: 10 April 2014).Hoorn et al. (2006) Play at the heart of the curriculum. Ohio: Pearson.Janet, M (2012) Play from A to Z in Early Childhood. England: McGraw Hill. Ginsburg et al. (2006) The importance of play in promoting healthy child development and maintaining strong parent-child bonds. Available at: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/119/1/182.full#sec-2 (accessed 10 April 2014).Cynthia, H (2008) Let's Play! Using play-based curricula to support children's learning across domains. Available at: http://www.earlychildhoodnews.com/earlychildhood/article_view.aspx?ArticleID=453 (Accessed: 8 April 2014)