New Zealand’s early childhood curriculum framework, Te Whariki, suggests that children learn through responsive and reciprocal relationships with people, places, and things. Through visual slides, story-telling, examples, experiences and powerful quotes, Toni illustrates how the infants, toddlers and young children at Childspace experience respectful people, places and things. The information presented includes simple examples of respectful interactions with children, images and theory behind the design of the physical environment, and how to select the best natural, open-ended and authentic toys and objects for optimal exploration and learning opportunities.