[Jaden]

What did you discover about the WACs while completing the activity? Something that I discovered about the WACs while completing this activity is the importance and influence environment, community and society have on the foundational beliefs of children. I didn’t get the same parenting or education growing up as most people so its always been an internal belief of mine that life isn’t fair and unfortunately no matter what bad stuff happens to you by other people, its your personal responsibility to fix the problems in your life others have caused and when you can, help others on there journey as well. I especially see the relationships between environment, community and society throughout section two, and how those influence people. Were you surprised by any of the WACs?Something that I discovered about the WACs while completing this activity is that the handbook is actually quite easy to digest. As someone who has a background in an admin position for the government, a lot of regulations are published in these long redundant organized forms that you have to just control F to even find the information you are looking for. Can you see how the WACs will influence your day-to-day practice in caring for children? Why or why not? I can definitely see how the WACs will influence my day-to-day as long as I keep a disapline of continued growth and understanding in childcare development. Adopting new mental models for how to live your live is especially important since we reflect our own mental models on children that are extremely impressionable. In context to my answer to question one, because I went through hardship as a little guy means its extra important for me to create a safe learning environment for children so they don’t have to do the extra work of being a well adjusted person like I did.