Remembering Alice Honig

03/23/2023

"Recognizing and respecting the wisdom of children can be a powerful force in fostering their holistic development."
Ruth Wilson

Our Exchange Press family celebrates the long life and contributions of Alice Honig, a passionate director, clinical psychologist, author and professor of early childhood development, language, play, and more, often focusing on infants and toddlers. Honig passed away earlier this month at 93.

“She loved teaching and writing about language and social development, including over a dozen books, received numerous awards including Barnard Alumnae 2015 Woman of Achievement Award, and trained childcare staff all over the world in her inimitable vivacious, warm style,” according to the Syracuse Post Standard. At Syracuse, Honig and her colleague Bettye Caldwell created the Children's Center, integrating health and school readiness programs for low-income preschoolers, which would become a model for Head Start. We are also grateful for inspiring articles she contributed to Exchange magazine from 1982 to 2017!

Honig’s gifts can perhaps best be summed up in her own words, from her book on Infant Caregiving co-authored with J. Ronald "Ron" Lally:

“Foster spiritually sustaining qualities: compassion, a sense of stirred wonder, doses of humor to relieve tedium or tumbles, comradely courtesies, and joy and complex enterprise. May trainers and caregivers find many satisfactions together in this journey toward unknown futures.”

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