One of the best ways to help children recognize their emotions and control their responses is by allowing them to speak about what happened and how they feel about it and be actively listening. And when their emotions are recognized ask and give them some options on what they want to do but if they come up with something then that would be best.

I speak with other coworkers and ask for advice on what I should do and what to do to help me, so I start to not feel compassion fatigued. I also take breaks and recollect myself.

As an adult or care provider allowing the child to speak to you about what is getting them sad, mad, and stressed is a good responsive exchange from child to adult because it gives the child to be able to speak about stressful things, so they don’t feel like they have to deal with it by themselves.

Things I found to release stress is removing myself from the area and taking deep breaths, and also taking that time to think what made me stress what I can do to make things better, and what I can do next time if something like that situation happens again.

Advice I would give to an early learning that wants to connect with the children is by trying to incorporate themselves in activities, and if they see a child that is alone go and try to talk to them and connect with them.

Yes, in any incident and emergency you must always report it and make sure to have the facts not opinion.

The equipment would be a crib with a firm mattress.

You can make healthy habits fun my making it into a game and also when a child does a healthy habit giving them a high five could make them enjoy it more so it can become a habit.

I would show them the activates, toys, first aid, outside, outside toys, restrooms, primary room and where we have everything located, emergency exits, emergency drills that we have in place, and the building to show there are no hazards in the building.

What I would do is first write down any symptoms on why I believe there might be a form of abuse, then report it to my director and then call CPS to tell them why I believe form of abuse could be it and give them the sighs that I saw that could be because of abuse.

My biggest worry about keeping children healthy and safe is that I will tell a child not to do something so they can be safe and not get hurt but then they do it either way and they get hurt and the parents get mad at me because I was supposed to make sure their child doesn’t get injured. I am most interested in learning how little kids think so… Read more

Advice for creating and maintain a good partnership between caregiver/parents and childcare provider would be try to be open and have clear conversation and try your best to let the parent know that you care for their child and are there to help them but also try to connect with the parent so they have some connection with you so they can… Read more

What I would want most from my child provider would be information on what my child needs help with and is good at, security, making my child have fun, and also help the child become better each day.Three fears I might have when leaving my child in someone’s care would be if my child is having fun, learning, and is safe.

Some creative ways to get children to engage to learning could by having the kids move to learn so they can use their hands and body to learn. Another way is to maybe make it competitive but only a little, so the kids try to beat you to but also learn while trying to beat you.

Have the same thing that needs to happen like bathroom time and lunch at the same time so they kids know at this time its lunch and bathroom break for everyone. Also, when making a schedule with the activates make some smaller ones in case you finish the activity faster than expected. If you don’t use the extra activity, you can use it for… Read more

I think a component that is important is everything is in its own place for each station of work area for the kids. So, the art center, and the puzzles are going to be in its own space to not get things mixed up but also so when the kids come in, they can choose where they want to go unless there’s something else planned first.

A god way to approach a parent about the development of screening of a child is by making sure you have the proper information beforehand. Then figuring out what words would be best do describe what happened and use more objective words and not subjective words. Then when speaking with the parent say the good things that happened first then… Read more

Documenting and observing a child’s development helps the providers by allowing the provider to know what activities can be done to help the child in aspects that they may not be as good in than other aspects. This also gives the provider the information of the child’s temperaments which gives the providers more information on how they can… Read more

I think screen time shouldn’t be available all the time to children. The reason is because when the children are not on the screen they are allowed to socialize better and be able to learn certain signals that other children may do, which enables the kids to recognize it and be able to grow from it. But no screen time allows the child to grow… Read more

I think providers can make a “serve and return” environment by attending to the infants needs and allowing the baby to understand even little that the provider is there and will provide. Another thing the provider could do is remember what they baby may need at certain time and what certain things the baby does mean so that the provider… Read more

I would politely tell them that this is the third time you’ve been late is there anything for us to do to help it not happen again. I would also let them know that although the twenty minutes may not seem like long but for the child it could seem like a very long time and could affect the child because of it.

WACs big messages about diversity and collaboration are that regardless of race or any differences, everyone should be working together to better help the child in their learning and their development as they grow.

I discovered that there are more in-depth things than someone might expect to see when first reading the WACs. I was a bit surprised about how there is a difference between the ratio of child to staff when working in a private home or house is different than working in a site or at one of the primary buildings. I can see that the WACs… Read more