Keeping children healthy and safe

  • El Sollman

    Member
    December 1, 2022 at 7:19 pm

    My biggest worry is that I won’t be aware of a danger that could’ve been prevented. I’m also scared of the possibility of losing a child.

  • Personal

    Member
    December 4, 2022 at 1:51 am

    My main fear is that a child will get really hurt under my care. Accident happens even when we take all the precautions, so it is always a concern that something may happen to a child and I will not react quickly enough to keeping it from happening it.

  • Tawna

    Member
    December 8, 2022 at 5:59 am

    My biggest worry about keeping children healthy and safe is that I will somehow lose count of one of them. Or that they may have an allergic reaction or something like that. I am constantly wanting to know how many kids I have when I am outside with them. I am wanting to learn how to deal with special personalities better. I find I become impatient when dealing with children who have challenging personalities.

  • Haley

    Member
    December 11, 2022 at 6:27 pm

    My biggest worry about keeping children safe is definitely the possibility of a school shooting. There have been far too many shooting in past years and it is something that I think about on occasion. It is a scary world we live in where things like that could happen.

  • Jailee

    Member
    December 14, 2022 at 9:54 pm

    I think I agree with a lot of other participants in this discussion on the points of internet safety and gun violence. I grew up right when the internet started becoming widely used and there were a lot more discussions about internet safety at that time. I don’t see those discussions being had nearly as much anymore. Gun violence is also a major concern; I thought about it often during my schooling and now I struggle to think about what I may have to do to keep my students and others safe.

  • Caitlyn

    Member
    December 14, 2022 at 11:33 pm

    I work in an outdoor preschool and we are well trained on deescalation but one of the thing I am vigilant about and fear for is someone coming into the classroom and scaring any of the children but I think that there are so many benefits to being in a community nature setting and developing relationships within the people who share space in the community that I am more than happy to work with those thoughts and continue to educate and train myself to mitigate or be ready for that circumstance.

  • Alyssa

    Member
    December 15, 2022 at 9:38 pm

    I agree that my biggest worry regarding keeping children safe would have to be more along the lines of natural disasters, evacuations, lock downs, etc.

  • Meghan

    Member
    December 16, 2022 at 6:49 pm

    I’m worried that I could miss a sign about abuse at home

  • Ellie

    Member
    December 18, 2022 at 8:58 am

    I am very worried about what may be happening at home, whether parents constantly fight in front of their children, if a parent is an alcoholic, or if there is abuse at home, whether between spouses or partners or to the child themselves. It’s heartbreaking to know that we as educators may be completely unaware of this, or unable to do as much as we want to help.

  • Kiley Kaye

    Member
    December 18, 2022 at 5:36 pm

    My biggest worry about keeping children safe comes to infants in particular. They explore the world by putting objects in their mouth, and I am always so worried that something could cause them to choke, or they could run with it and fall and hurt their mouth or throat. I am extra vigilant when they pick up a toy to inspect this way, but I know that there is always the chance for a child to become hurt.

  • Maya

    Member
    December 18, 2022 at 7:39 pm

    Currently have a child in my class who is allergic to peanuts. He is not able to touch or even smell peanuts it will make her sick and she will have to go to the hospital. We have been really good about checking everyone’s lunch about peanuts but it can be tough sometimes because a lot of the food is made from possible factories with peanuts in them so we have to tell the parents that they are not able to bring that kind of stuff. Which is not good. Because there are a lot of places and foods that have made contain peanuts or may be in a peanut factory may be touched by peanuts. So I do not want the child to get sick that scares me a lot.

  • maria

    Member
    December 20, 2022 at 2:56 pm

    My biggest worry is that I can’t predict what will happen next. For example, I have a young class and for most they are new to the school setting. I teach daily not to run in the classroom, use chairs properly, eccetera. But my students constantly need reminders to do this. They have gotten hurt but noting serious and I have to send home an ice pack and a note.

  • Amber

    Member
    December 20, 2022 at 5:58 pm

    My biggest worry is allergens. Having potentially anaphylactic allergies myself, gives me a great deal of insight into how important it is to protect children with allergies, due to the life threatening nature of it, and how nonchalant, or even disbelieving some adults can be about allergies.

  • Brienne

    Member
    December 23, 2022 at 9:57 pm

    My biggest worry is school shootings and being unable to protect the kids, harmful social media, and bullying, and I’m most interested in finding ways to prevent or know what to do in these situations

  • Scion

    Member
    December 24, 2022 at 10:16 pm

    My biggest worry is not being able to ultimately ‘control’ their decisions. I can tell them and tell them not to do something, or to PLEASE do something, but in the end, it’s up to them how they answer. And that goes for so many different things; whether it be that they don’t pick their nose, put things in their mouths, to go put a jacket on, to go to sleep during nap time, and so on. I feel like the facility I work at is a rather safe place, but there is a large homeless population where I live, and I worry about intruders or trespassers walking around or trying to get in, and them having a gun or a weapon of some sort.

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