My name is Amber Johnson; I have two children of my own, a girl age 7 and a boy age 10. I started taking care of children when I was fifteen. I would babysit whenever I had a chance and help out with my brothers at home for my dad. For a year now, I have been working at a daycare where I take care of toddlers and I enjoy every minute. I love expanding my knowledge of children, since taking classes I have learned a lot.
This is my philosophy of guiding young children’s behavior and I choose to do my paper on toddlers. As the children’s caregiver I think it is important I need to meet needs that they have to help them make good decisions. Children need food, drinks, rest, exercise, and to feel they are in a safe environment. Children need to be loved, feel affection, and be respected. I feel it is very important for children to be given chances to be successful to build self-esteem and to better their decisions for good behavior.
One of my goals for guiding young children’s behavior is to help children differentiate acceptable behavior and unacceptable behavior. When we set rules in my class I always make sure to explain to the children why these are rules and why it is important to follow them. I also find consistency with all of the children to be very helpful achieving this goal. Repeating the rules throughout the day and making sure they know them is important. I have fun colorful posters on the wall of the rules to remind the children and every day, while waiting for breakfast we go over them.
My second goal in guiding my toddler’s behavior, is to teach them to be responsible. I teach them about feelings we have as people to help them build respect for the people around them and how it might feel if we do not treat our friends very nice. We treat our friends and our toys with respect. We know if we are not respectful to our toys, we won’t have nice toys to play with since they might break and they do not like broken toys. We pick up after ourselves. When we are done eating together at the table, we clean up after ourselves and push our chairs in. I feel teaching the children these things now, they can carry it on the rest of their lives.
Empathy is another important factor that I have come to realize is great in guiding young ones behaviors. Empathy lets the children focus on the choices they have made, instead of the anger of the adult. I have learned that empathy builds relationships and connections, rather than building walls. It makes the children feel so much better than when you yell at them in anger. I feel if the kids learn this now, they can always remember how to talk to people no matter what age the other person is and know it is important to not use anger when talking to people.
The family’s involvement is very important in achieving all of my goals. I need to have a good relationships with all of the families of the children I care for. Daily contact with them helps a lot. When I see them, I get to talk to them about what we have been working on and how they do at home and if they take what they learn here home with them. I also like to see what kind of techniques the families use to help better the children’s behavior. It is interesting what you can learn from the parents and what they can learn from you and how grateful they are for you to help them. I find when the kids see that you have a good relationship with their family, they do better.
This is my philosophy of guiding young children’s behavior and I choose to do my paper on toddlers. As the children’s caregiver I think it is important I need to meet needs that they have to help them make good decisions. Children need food, drinks, rest, exercise, and to feel they are in a safe environment. Children need to be loved, feel affection, and be respected. I feel it is very important for children to be given chances to be successful to build self-esteem and to better their decisions for good behavior.
One of my goals for guiding young children’s behavior is to help children differentiate acceptable behavior and unacceptable behavior. When we set rules in my class I always make sure to explain to the children why these are rules and why it is important to follow them. I also find consistency with all of the children to be very helpful achieving this goal. Repeating the rules throughout the day and making sure they know them is important. I have fun colorful posters on the wall of the rules to remind the children and every day, while waiting for breakfast we go over them.
My second goal in guiding my toddler’s behavior, is to teach them to be responsible. I teach them about feelings we have as people to help them build respect for the people around them and how it might feel if we do not treat our friends very nice. We treat our friends and our toys with respect. We know if we are not respectful to our toys, we won’t have nice toys to play with since they might break and they do not like broken toys. We pick up after ourselves. When we are done eating together at the table, we clean up after ourselves and push our chairs in. I feel teaching the children these things now, they can carry it on the rest of their lives.
Empathy is another important factor that I have come to realize is great in guiding young ones behaviors. Empathy lets the children focus on the choices they have made, instead of the anger of the adult. I have learned that empathy builds relationships and connections, rather than building walls. It makes the children feel so much better than when you yell at them in anger. I feel if the kids learn this now, they can always remember how to talk to people no matter what age the other person is and know it is important to not use anger when talking to people.
The family’s involvement is very important in achieving all of my goals. I need to have a good relationships with all of the families of the children I care for. Daily contact with them helps a lot. When I see them, I get to talk to them about what we have been working on and how they do at home and if they take what they learn here home with them. I also like to see what kind of techniques the families use to help better the children’s behavior. It is interesting what you can learn from the parents and what they can learn from you and how grateful they are for you to help them. I find when the kids see that you have a good relationship with their family, they do better.