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Early Childhood Education and Care News
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May 5, 2020
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Kia ora and welcome back, we hope you and the families in your service have made a successful adjustment to the Level 3 alert criteria. This week Happy Mother's Day for Sunday to all the mums out there doing a great job in these strange times! Also, a fascinating and provocative article by early childhood expert Nicole Halton on whether parents make better educators and how to teach children the value of kindness.
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Food for Thought: Do parents make better educators?
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"None of them are mums – they have no idea."
"They are all so young."
"There's one great educator – she's a parent, so she gets it."
These are some snippets of a conversation that I overheard at the school gate last week. As parents arrived to collect their children from school, one shared their frustration with their other child's early education and care service.
While there is no doubt that their concerns were valid and that they ultimately want their child to be happy, settled and well cared for in the service, what stood out to me most was the assertion that the "young" educators were doing a lousy job because they weren't parents yet. Other parents quickly agreed with this idea, expressing their preference for more "mature" educators who were already parents, suggesting that they were better at their job as a result.
This article was written by early childhood consultant Nicole Halton from Inspired EC and is reproduced with permission. |
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Kindness is contagious: Create a caring culture
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Kindness makes us healthier, happier and, according to science, it might even be contagious! Kindness is a natural human response that can flow naturally from even the youngest child and to ensure it stays with children throughout their early years and into adulthood, it should be nurtured, reinforced and celebrated.
Kindness is defined as the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate, and it includes other caring behaviours like concern, sharing and gentleness. Kindness is also an important component of empathy, which is the ability to place yourself in someone else’s shoes and understand what they are feeling.
Early childhood educators can promote kindness and caring behaviours among children by using every day interactions as opportunities for teaching, modelling and rewarding. The positive effect of kindness reinforces more kindness, reduces bullying and it feels good.
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