Emma in Early Childhood

Sometimes the hardest part isn’t your child’s care, it’s the relationship with the educators.

If this has ever felt awkward, save this and send it to another parent. Miscommunication happens.

You think you were clear, they think they were clear, and suddenly everyone’s off track.
What helps most? Open, honest conversations early, respect on both sides, remembering you’re on the same team for your child.

As an early childhood educator -

Does it make you wonder about the rights of the child?
Does it make you wonder about how time could be better spent collecting authentic information from attuning to children and not a screen?

Makes me wonder.

So I could talk about this idea for a VERY long time. And I understand there may be more questions than answers.

I’ve given it a crack anyway to get some reflective discussion going because understanding that calm does not equal regulated blew my mind. It made complete sense.

Don’t get me wrong - calm is great but it’s one of many emotions and when we ask educators to go there in situations that are not calm it seems to further escalate or confuse at times.

Where as accepting the situation for what it is, tough BUT something I can do better when I focus on my regulation, the pressure to stay calm will hopefully lift. Not to mention showing children that we too can feel a bit overwhelmed but we’ve got strategies up our sleeves to help us to move through it is a bonus.

Let me know what you think.

I’ll sometimes see educators in the 0-2 space get stumped when trying to consider intentional teaching strategies for the children in their space.
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A lot of the time the underlying cause is the misconception that intentional teaching only happens in directive, group experiences.

But when we look at the true meaning of intentional teaching we are reminded that it’s not about how the learning is delivered necessarily. It’s about how we are responding to children’s growth and development with purpose.

And when you pair that with knowing how the child learns best, the strategies can flow much easier.