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When looking for a child care provider for your child:

Parents should consider asking the following questions:

Don’t hesitate to ask these questions and others you deem important!  It’s your job to find a child care provider that both your child will feel comfortable in and so will you.

Again, obviously parents want what’s best for their children.  They worry about the wellbeing of their childrne when placing their children in child care.  Here are typical questions parents ask themselves–

Will my child’s provider like my child?

Will she understand my child’s moods?

Will my child be happy at day care?

Parents and child care providers should work together so parents are not so apprehensive.  Providers should understand that working with the parents does not mean they should put up with delinquent behavior!  Discipline is a important parenting tool and child care providers should have the same view about discipline.  However, normally since parents spend the most time with their children, they should be the definitive source of discipline and teachers / child care providers should not feel discouraged when a issue isn’t solved immediately.  Parents and providers need to team together and work to help children succeed and grow up to be the wonderful people God meant them to be!

Everyone makes mistakes. Granted, some mistakes are more significant than others and harder to get over, but they are a part of life. How individuals deal with those mistakes is significant to their self-esteem.  Children who are taught from an early age to admit to their mistakes understand that it’s not a crime to make one, and they seem to have the ability to cope much better with them.  They recognize that a mistake was made and admit the error. Most importantly, these children also develop a strategy to change the mistake and not do the same thing again. The process of making and learning from mistakes is an extremely valuable life skill for everyone because learning involves risking. Every time children risk, they will not always succeed.  But they tried something new and most likely learned from it as a result.  Children with low self-esteem deal with making a mistake quite differently. More often than not, these children use the experience to devalue themselves. Instead of looking at the error as an opportunity to learn, these children interpret the experience as a reason to quit and never try again. They view it as a devaluing and humiliating experience. You can help your child cope with mistakes by first making sure they understand that everyone makes mistakes, even you.  Own up to your own mistakes to teach them there’s no shame in making them. Make sure they understand that it’s okay to make mistakes.  This presents a great opportunity to tell your child what you’ve learned to do differently the next time.  Then, offer strategies to turn mistakes into learning opportunities. In the process, you can provide your child with an opportunity to enhance their self-esteem and accept responsibility for the mistakes they make. Help your child to realize that the mistake is the problem, and not them.  Then help them develop a positive plan for the next time around, and what they’ll do differently the next time to avoid making the same mistake again.

Back to school season starts again!  My daughter started preschool this year and she loves it!  Don’t forget to shop for all your back to school items.  My wife went shopping the night before school started and came back with so much stuff it was crazy!  My daughter rides the bus to school and I didn’t think they would help her with all of it, but the bus monitor was great and didn’t even sigh

Just wanted to give a shout out and say “happy back to school!”

Many gays and homosexuals are ostracized in the child care community. This does not need to be the case!  Just because their sexual preference is different from the norm, does not mean they can’t take care for or raise wonderful children.  This problem is very prominent in gay Romania. Romanians are mostly eastern orthodox and this fact makes it difficult for them to accept gays and homosexuals.   Since most objections to gays in child care settings seem to be rooted in religious faith or prejudice.  The next time your see a gay or lesbian working in a child daycare, please accept them and only question their work ethic not their sexual preference!