[mosab]

what i learned about the palm tree analogy was that people can be like a palm tree they experience stress from hurricane winds but they bounce back.

[Jennifer]

some examples of responsive exchange could be to listen to the child when they are talking, acknowledge them even if you are busy and let them know you will give them your full attention in a minute. provide them with safe, supportive and loving environment. Help them work through their emotions.

[Sabine]

• Respond when children try to get your attention. You can acknowledge that you hear them, even if you can’t fulfill their request right away.
• Help parents be present with their children. Eliminate distractions during home visits that might divide parents’ attention.
• Reflect on how you integrate the culture of the family into discussions of responsive caregiving with them.
• Encourage parents to look for everyday moments that can be used for one-on-one interactions. These may be moments like diaper changes or riding in the car or on the bus.
• If a parent seems hesitant to talk to their baby before their baby is using words, let them know that even responding to a baby’s babbles is important. All of these interactions build the relationship between caregiver and child.
• Reflect on how you already respond contingently to children and how you might improve your responsivity.

[Sabine]

To prevent or recover from compassion fatigue, take time for self-reflection, identify what’s important and live in a way that reflects it. To sustain yourself at work, develop “principles of practice” — guidelines of personal integrity that articulate the parameters of your personal values.

[Sabine]

Talk and teach: Teach your children to recognize and name their emotions. Don’t bother trying to have the conversation while they’re upset, however. “When things are calm, find opportunities to talk about feelings and strategies for managing them,” Cole said.

[Kriselle Bantay]

Some responsive exchanges you may want to use in everyday interactions with children are practicing kindness, understanding their circumstances, listening to them when they are speaking, and talking through their emotions or potential struggles they may be encountering.

[Fernando]

Taking care of the children’s needs and also talking to them when they need help will build up trust, guiding them to think for themselves when a small problems happen would help them problem solve.

[Halle]

I learned that we each can come back from a hard situation. Each person will experience it differently.

[Kyle]

Some responsive exchanges you may want to practice with kids during everyday interactions is showing that you are listening to them when they are telling you something. Maintaining eye contact, nodding your head, and asking questions occasionally are just a few ways of showing that you are listening as a responsive exchange.

[Michelli Timburiba]

Some examples of responsive exchanges are: Listening carefully, building a relationship with trust, being present, showing love and caring.

[anissa pruett]

Children become resilient through reoccurring stress, which can be caused by minor and major incidents trhoughout a childs life. But as adults we can counter act some of that need to create such resilience by being attentive and engaging with a child in the moment of stress, giving them guidance and reassurance.

[Emiline]

Share some examples of responsive exchanges you may want to use in everyday interactions with children.

Making sure that you are truly listening to the child and giving them a scaffolding, appropriate response can help bring positive and healthy relationships between each other. It can help build healthy habits for the child and resilience to any kind of trauma.

[Jaci Peifer]

Asking questions of a child during a conversation or play so that they can continue to talk about what is interesting them. Make eye contact as much as possible. Acknowledging a child, even if it is to say “I will be with you shortly”, so that they are being heard and not ignored.

[Tania]

Some of the responsive exchanges that a caregover can make with the child are:

~ Talk to them whenever they need to talk

~ Support them when they are unable to balance their behaviour

~ Do not punish them rather help them get over their emotional problems they are facing

~Provide them with a trustworthy and friendly relationship

~Create a safe and warm environment for their sound mental development

~Train them to build resilience against the harshness of the world around

~Talk to them with a smiling happy face

~ Always offer help whenever you will they are in need of that

~ Use appreciating and nice words.

[Miriam]

Playing, interacting with the children getting eye level.