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Excerpt from the novel: The Perfect Solution “...I placed the most precious thing I had in the world, in your hands and you people did not take your jobs seriously."

 
Dear Parent, grandparent, teacher, childcare provider, and person who cares for the welfare of a child,

Are you aware of the mistreatment, neglect, and deaths of children which have occurred in traditional and/or home based child care centers? Some happen in  traditional as well as as home based. Are you becoming concerned? I am. Are there perhaps things we as the caregivers should be doing to eliminate daily incidents of negligence and keep horrific results like those from occurring?

Hi, I’m Ey Wade. I have been in the childcare profession for over thirty years, both in the traditional centers and as owner of a private home based center. I have witnessed and heard of a lot of things which should never have happened when a child is placed in the hands of another.

The following are questions which came to mind as I wrote the novel, The Perfect Solution and wish to share with you. Hopefully these questions will aid in improving measures in and out of the child care center.
 If you have a child in your life, download and take this survey/questionnaire as a tool on your search for the perfect solution.

Thank you for your concern and participation.

Ey Wade

What it says:


MAKING CHILDCARE CENTER'S  and  PRIVATE CARE in YOUR CITY, SAFER.

These questions pertain to everyone in the childcare, from janitorial to director. Please do not let your position in the center or as a parent(guardian) bias your answer.

You may hold the key to making your particular center better and possibly saving a life. You may hold the key to making the center the best. Please answer questions as completely as possible without using the minimum standards handbook. If you or your center has a unique way of handling things, please include your suggestions.


1) Do you love working with children? _________Why?_______________


2) How long have you worked in childcare?_____________ Do you feel the same about the profession as you did when you started?

3) Do you believe the amount you are paid reflects your duties?

4) Would you as a staff member, report negligence, abuse, or misconduct that occurs in the center? _____If no, why not?


5) If you did report within the center ad actions remained the same, would you report to higher authority?


6) Not considering your salary as a necessity, how important is your responsibility in childcare?


7) Do you feel your actions, attitude, and morals affect the children in your care?


8) Why is it important for parents to have respect for their caregiver?


9) Do you feel it is important to 'get along' with staff members?


10) Do you believe its okay to go to work and just 'mind your business'?


11) Who do you feel is responsible for overall conduct or actions which occur within the center? Why?


12) Would you take exception to someone walking around observing, and taking notes within the center?


 Why?


13) What is your idea of a ' safe' environment?


INFANT CARE


1. What are the most important pieces of information to be posted over each crib in an infant room or near the crib in a home center?


What is your suggestion?


2. What do you feel is the best way to make sure the room is safe for infant care? What is your suggestion?


3. Should each infant have a specified crib? If not, how would you distinguish who uses each crib? What is your suggestion?

4. What would you do if there were a fire in the center and you worked with infants? Your suggestion.


GENERAL CARE


5. Why do you think it is important to have a list of the children in your care posted on the wall?

 Do you think it is important to have their emergency information posted, also? What would be your suggestion?


6. How often should you count the children in your care?  Why? What is your suggestion?


7 Do you feel it is important to carry the list of children with you when you (and the children) leave the room?


FIELD TRIPS & CAR/VAN TRAVEL


8. Do you believe there should be a designated routine established in your center concerning field trips? What would you do before and after a field trip to make sure all of the children are safe and accounted for?


9. I believe cell phones are a major asset between center and van drivers; plus center and director. What do you feel? Should the center be responsible for supplying and maintaining this equipment?


10.When on a field trip, do you believe there should be a designated 'lead' teacher?


11. What do you think should be the routine for safe daily van/car transportation? How would you make sure no child is forgotten in the vehicle?


SUPERVISION


12. Do you believe teachers need short breaks throughout the day? Why?What would you suggest?


13. If you were in the farthest class from the office how would you relate your needs to the office or others?


14. Do you think it would be beneficial for all classes/ home to have intercom systems or video monitors?


15. What would be an approved reason to leave your class (inside or outside) without adult supervision?


16. How would you handle such a situation in a home center? If you are the only adult, how do you handle lunch preparation? Restroom breaks?

ARRIVAL/DISMISSAL


17. What information should a parent share when bringing child to center in morning?

18. Do you think parents should be allowed to bring strangers into the building/home when leaving or picking up their children?


19. Do you believe centers should provide a designated place for visitors to wait while clients get their child? What is your suggestion?


20. If you didn't know the person who has come to get a child, what would you do?

Remember, you are in the farthest room from the office.


21. Where should initial identification have been?


22. What is your (your center's) procedure?



23. What would you do if a child refuses to leave with the person after identification has been established?


24. The child is the last in the center, you're tired and ready to leave, but the child is hysterical and refuses to leave. What would be your response?


25. What do you feel your responsibility is when working in childcare and where does it end?


26. If a serious accident or death occurs in your childcare center, who should be responsible?


27. From children playing in the restrooms, to running in the highways, how observant or conscious are you being on a daily basis in all areas? What is your suggestion?

__________________________________________________________________


If you feel you can elaborate on this survey, please feel free to do so.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME Wade-In Publishing    email: imtheauhor@gmail.com



The Perfect Solution is a novel written with the purpose of informing parents, parents-to-be, daycare workers, owners, and others in the child care profession of the importance of diligent observation in childcare centers.

While The Perfect Solution is entertaining, it entices parents to become involved in the daily running of the center their child/children attend. The Perfect Solution captures the attention of workers and owners of centers by reminding them of the little incidents occurring in the center where they ma have been lacking in observation. This novel brings the true importance of paying attention close to home.

In the novel, other problems occurring in the building are mentioned, for example, poor staffing, high staff turn-over, physical abuse, children forgotten in vans, parks, just to name a few. The Perfect Solution tells of problems, but also gives solutions to the problems.

The Perfect Solution not only delves into the depths of the emotions and thoughts of the parents and the child, it also exposes the  motives of the abductor, the director of the center  and the teacher who mistakenly places the child in the abductor's hands.

Read excerpts from book here.

You can purchase The Perfect Solution and other books by Ey Wade at all major bookstores.

Ey Wade

The Perfect Solution- Childcare Survey #parenting #thingslegendsaremadeof

You should know. It won't make your child conceited if you tell them how wonderful they are.

Applaud them for their accomplishments, even if it looks minute in your eyes. Encourage them to try bigger and better things. Don't compare their skills to someone else, whether better or worse.
You should also know, it won't destroy your child to know where their weakness lies.

Encourage them to repeat what they believe is a failure, practice eventually builds the skill or let's the child know the activity is not their forte. And that's okay.
Bestowing Praise & Speaking Encouragement on the Child in Your Life #parenting #homeschooling

When it comes to teaching a child, I honestly believe it isn't what you give a child to learn, but how you teach him & help him learn.

The subject at the time is relevant, but the process used in teaching, equipment and tools at hand, matter the most. The best and most expensive pieces of electronics and technology means nothing if the instructor can't grab the child's attention or the material has no enjoyment in it.
Something has to be there to spark the child into wanting to learn. An iPad is not the be all and the end all, as stated in this article from Time Magazine-Education

"An iPad is an amazing device for transmitting information, but what makes a difference in a student’s life is the information, not its mode of transmission. Appropriate content, provided at the right time in the student’s life, and in the right pedagogical context, is everything. Technology doesn’t guarantee any part of that. An iPad loaded with inane apps is just another boring textbook."~Jervay Tervelon

You as a parent or educator can come up with an extensive lesson plan and curriculum, but if there isn't some sort of eye popping,mind exploding substance of wonder gained, you failed. The child goes through the routine and leaves the room with nothing retained. The lesson was for naught.

With every subject:
  1. Try to incorroprate at least one hand on project
  2. Try to incorporate an art piece
  3. If possible, find the child a suitable partner to work with
  4. Allow laughter  and messiness
  5. Converse throughout lesson. Meaningful conversation. Not just a standard lecture. See what the child is absorbing or missing all together
  6. Set time where you can stop to explain

Ey Wade is the author of several books and the former home-schooling parent of three daughters. Find out more about her by visiting her web page at Wade-In Publishing

 Also visit her children's blog to catch the latest in picture books and YA novels

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Knowledge, Soaked in Like a Sponge

There is a large element of the natural parent in all of us. Some, as we grow into societies wants and demands on us, tend to stifle down our instincts- our gut feelings. My belief is to rear your child as you see fit for what works with you and them. Each child is an individual. a person born of you, but not a part of you. So we have to teach them to that basis. 
Teach them the rules to live in society, but don't smother the natural urge to test the bounds and experience what makes them happy and fulfilled.
Pinoch has grown into one of those fellows I love to watch and listen to one minute, while wanting to confine him to the netherlands in the next.


 I love this thought he believes for himself.

“…I might be two things.” He thought a little longer and said, “I might be a lot of things.”

Yes, I am a grandmother. Lovely to my Jett Parker Ellington and mommy to his mom.

I'm so excited about the things she is doing with him, with his education. With the expansion of his HUGE four

year old brain and his humongous personality.



I believe in hands on and free learning. The natural way of gaining and retaining information.

I also believe in applauding people I see doing good jobs. Not saying this fellow is an angel-no, he's a total real boy with busted knees and lips. Has been from day one, which is why I call him Pinoch. No strings hold him back.

But his mom is doing an outstanding job when it comes to letting him be the person he is meant to be. His joy and thirst in learning is phenomenal.

She is more of a natural parent than I am/was. Into canning, making soaps, and medications. Gardening, wanting chickens and owning a small plot of "I can do what I want," land.



She's homeschooling him as I did with her and her sisters. She has a lovely post on his blog at  Happy Adventures of Preschool Boy 
 
 "J likes science, caterpillars and butterflies, horses, fast cars,
rhyming games, silly bits of poetry and though he says he doesn’t like
insects, he’s always looking for them. He has a funny talent for bird
calling, an eye for the tiny details, and an enthusiasm and a laugh
that’s contagious.

We’re making up this schooling thing as we go along but I can guarantee you that it will includes all the things little things he
loves and more. There are days where we lay on the floor and write our
letters, or where we take some time to learn on the computer but more
often than not, we like to be hands-on and right in the middle of what
we’re learning.

I’m hoping that a freedom to learn and indulge and in his interests
in his early years will lead to a deep confidence and personal freedom
as he grows. I’m also hoping that he and I will have several fun
adventures along the way." ~ G.Wade -Adventures of Preschool Boy
via- GWade





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That Lovey Feeling. My Grandbaby Can Do No Wrong #parenting #homeschooling

I don't think there is anything more enjoyable in life than being a grandparent. You get to see parts of your own child reborn. Relive the joy of holding a new life, and see the future.



 


 You get the chance to watch this new being become a person in their own right.

Love, spoil, send back home.



And you get to sit back and cheer a little when karma kicks in, but...

  • Don't stand too far back. All new parents need a little advice and will love it when given in a non-condescending manner.
  • Don't cheer at the comeuppance your child is getting from their mini. Well,maybe you can just a little. Behind the hand and not too loudly.
  • Do step in occasionally and show how you handle a given situation that's getting out of hand. Not as if you are the only one who could fix the issue, but with the air of instruction and being a help mate.
  • Do show that grandchild what behavior you will and will not accept. Shut it down quick.It never works if you let a child believe he/she can get away with any and everything with Lovey, grandma...whoever you are to them. That reinforces bad behavior and doesn't help the parents. You guys are all a team in rearing a beautiful, loving, giving adult.
  • Most of all, pass out lots of hugs and parts on back for a job well done.


Ey Wade is the author of several books in many genres. She s at present working on a parenting book.
Enjoy novels written by Ey Wade  
Snap of a Grandparent #parenting #grandparent #thingslegendsaremadeof

The most amazing thing in the world is to become a mother. So many subtle, unseen things about you change. You gain super powers. Go on, hook on that cape because I know you've felt them.
  • You can hear the restless rustle of sheets from behind closed doors, down the hall and through the walls.
  • You can sense when danger is trying to sneak up on your child.
  • You feel pain, read minds, and almost always save the day...but you can never tear yourself apart.
  • Your one weakness, and it can knock the knees right from under you, is LOVE. Try to run, hide, bury it, and it remains. Giving you strength and thing you in knots.


    What is your super power?

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