I wanted to explore the podcast section of Zero to three
since my last post. I was able to do
that this week and as a parent and teacher, it was enlightening to hear from
professionals in the field. I listened
to “Beyond “Use Your Words!”: How Babies Begin to Develop Self-Control in the First
Three Years Featuring Brenda Jones-Harden, Ph.D.”. It was interesting to me as a mom nurturing
an eighteen month old at home and teaching 4 year olds at preschool because
they talked about temperament from infancy and how that evolves into the temperament
of a toddler and so on as well as how important it is for parents to model good
coping mechanisms and when it is appropriate to be upset but also to verbalize
it to the child. I understand this with
my eighteen month old as I often say to him, “I see you are mad, can you say
help me?” etc. With my 4 year olds in
class, I often do not give them this same treatment because I expect them to
already be at that step to “use your words”.
This podcast has made me take a step back and (starting next week) to
help some children walk through the steps they may have missed or are missing
at home for coping… I don’t want this to seem like I don’t model problem
solving for my class because I do, but it has made me more sympathetic as to why “Johnny” melts down during certain
times of the day and that I need to take a more active role to help him work
through it.
One of the links I explored was the Early Head Start link https://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/hslc/tta-system/ehsnrc
is a comprehensive website that offers information from Breastfeeding to Child
Welfare, School Readiness for Infants and Toddlers and so on. Good Resource parents and educators of young children
birth to 3.
Equity and Excellence are represented in the Rally 4 Babies
link to promote a good start for infants as well as the public policy tab which
supports Federal, State, and Local Policy development for Good Health, Strong
Families, and Positive Early Learning Experiences for children.
I had a discussion similar to the topic of feelings. I was going over different feeling faces and situations to pre-k age children. We were discussing how we would feel. One parent felt that I was telling the child how they should feel in a situation. When I explained that it can be difficult for children to let us they feel sad, happy, mad, etc if they do not know what word goes with their feelings. There is always a beginning to where we learn the terms for words, some are different points in their life than others.
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