Showing posts with label school. Show all posts
Showing posts with label school. Show all posts
Summer will soon be over and time to place the young ones in the hands of others. Can be a frightening thing. Read this first. Who is really caring for your child? This is the title to an article I wrote in June. You can click over or read here. and then watch the video on the end. A Survey can be found here
As an over thirty year veteran of the child care profession and an author of a novel dealing with the negligence which occurs in the day care centers, I have found myself asking this question repeatedly.
As the years have passed, the question comes to the forefront of my mind more often.
I have been employed in many centers in the past. Most of which I left deciding to seek employment elsewhere due to their lack of organization, cleanliness, mistreatment of the staff, poor wages and, most of all because of the slipshod attitude and occasional abuse in the care of children.
We as adults tend to worry and frustrate ourselves more with the quality of education for school-aged children when she should be focusing on the care of the infant through preschooler. These are the formative years in which life’s values are ingrained by the time a child reaches 5 years old. Sure, some habits can be changed, but the main foundation is established in the beginning.
We as the care-givers can have great influence on the children. I know this because children will pick up our habits and take them home- the way we move, the way we say things. I know this because I have heard from many parents how their child mimics me in their play and in their daily lives, so I try to be a great role model. The way we treat the children are the way they grow. It’s not just “a lack of home training.” I hear this statement often in the child care system especially when a child is misbehaving.
Many children spend anywhere from six to 12 hours a day within one particular center, with one to two adults as their care-givers. What are we showing them? Anger, frustration or the attitude “Do what you want because I’m not your momma”?
If parents only knew the truth, they would just spend more time researching the center.
Find out why there is a high rate of staff turnover. Don’t be content with the fact your child’s particular care giver is still there. Maybe they just can’t afford to leave.
Maybe they just can’t afford to leave. Things change during Summer vacations, new people come in and favorites may be gone.
Parents don’t just grab a lunch menu on your way out of the center and assume that because it looks nutritious, your child must be eating right.
Teachers are to make sure the children eat their lunches, but in some centers the food is so horrible the amount the children given are so minimal that it hurts my heart to place it in front of the child. Drop in at lunch time. Give no advance warning, and you may be surprised.
Just because you pay your money to a fancy, well-equipped center that all is well.
Centers established to take care of the “poorer” majority of children tend to have more equipment, more food and generally better funding. As I’m sure you know, most centers are run by the rules of minimum standards-and that is just what is there; the minimum. Centers tend to do just enough to squeeze their own standards into the rules.
Explore your child’s center. Make many unannounced visits. Appear at different times. Walk through the center. Don’t just stop at the door of your child’s class. At most centers that I have worked in (and I have worked in the best to the worst) the teachers are to have activities and lessons prepared. That’s a very frustrating job to do when there are a few or no supplies to use.
Are there Kleenex? Bathroom tissue? Paper towels?
If your child is an infant, I implore you to stop in more often. See if anyone is holding your infant, playing on the floor, singing or playing music. If you always see your child or any child consistently in the bed, swings, or confined to a bouncer, it is probably how he spends his/her day. Again I ask who is caring for your child? Disturbing video
About the Author: Ey Wade considers herself to be a caged in frustrated author of thought provoking, mind bending
eBooks, an occasional step-in parent, a fountain of knowledge, and ready
to share. She is the author of The Perfect Solution the story of a parent’s worse nightmare. A three year old is mistakenly given to a stalker by his preschool-teacher.
http://wade-inpublishing.com
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Check Your Daycare Before School Starts
abuse +
childcare +
children +
school +
summer
As an over thirty year veteran of the child care profession and an author of a novel dealing with the negligence which occurs in the day care centers, I have found myself asking this question repeatedly.
As the years have passed, the question comes to the forefront of my mind more often. I have been employed in many centers in the past. Most of which I left deciding to seek employment elsewhere due to their lack of organization, cleanliness, mistreatment of the staff, poor wages and, most of all because of the slipshod attitude and occasional abuse in the care of children.
We as adults tend to worry and frustrate ourselves more with the quality of education for school-aged children when she should be focusing on the care of the infant through preschooler. These are the formative years in which life’s values are ingrained by the time a child reaches 5 years old. Sure, some habits can be changed, but the main foundation is established in the beginning.
We as the care-givers can have great influence on the children. I know this because children will pick up our habits and take them home- the way we move, the way we say things. I know this because I have heard from many parents how their child mimics me in their play and in their daily lives, so I try to be a great role model. The way we treat the children are the way they grow. It’s not just “a lack of home training.” I hear this statement often in the child care system especially when a child is misbehaving.
Many children spend anywhere from six to 12 hours a day within one particular center, with one to two adults as their care-givers. What are we showing them? Anger, frustration or the attitude “Do what you want because I’m not your momma”? If parents only knew the truth, they would just spend more time researching the center.
Find out why there is a high rate of staff turnover. Don’t be content with the fact your child’s particular care giver is still there. Maybe they just can’t afford to leave. Maybe they just can’t afford to leave. Things change during Summer vacations, new people come in and favorites may be gone. Parents don’t just grab a lunch menu on your way out of the center and assume that because it looks nutritious, your child must be eating right.
Teachers are to make sure the children eat their lunches, but in some centers the food is so horrible the amount the children given are so minimal that it hurts my heart to place it in front of the child. Drop in at lunch time. Give no advance warning, and you may be surprised. Just because you pay your money to a fancy, well-equipped center that all is well.
Centers established to take care of the “poorer” majority of children tend to have more equipment, more food and generally better funding. As I’m sure you know, most centers are run by the rules of minimum standards-and that is just what is there; the minimum. Centers tend to do just enough to squeeze their own standards into the rules.
Explore your child’s center. Make many unannounced visits. Appear at different times. Walk through the center. Don’t just stop at the door of your child’s class. At most centers that I have worked in (and I have worked in the best to the worst) the teachers are to have activities and lessons prepared. That’s a very frustrating job to do when there are a few or no supplies to use. Are there Kleenex? Bathroom tissue? Paper towels?
If your child is an infant, I implore you to stop in more often. See if anyone is holding your infant, playing on the floor, singing or playing music. If you always see your child or any child consistently in the bed, swings, or confined to a bouncer, it is probably how he spends his/her day. Again I ask who is caring for your child? Disturbing video
Available for Purchase:
Smashwords
AmazonUK AmazonUS , Sony or Kobo, Scribed
Nook and iTunes.
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:
- Try to incorroprate at least one hand on project
- Try to incorporate an art piece
- If possible, find the child a suitable partner to work with
- Allow laughter and messiness
- Converse throughout lesson. Meaningful conversation. Not just a standard lecture. See what the child is absorbing or missing all together
- 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
bit.ly/kidblg #parenting #thingslegendsaremadeof
~
Knowledge, Soaked in Like a Sponge
Ey Wade +
homeschooling +
motherhood +
parenting +
school +
self-esteem +
teaching
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
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:
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
bit.ly/kidblg #parenting #thingslegendsaremadeof ~
"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:
- Try to incorroprate at least one hand on project
- Try to incorporate an art piece
- If possible, find the child a suitable partner to work with
- Allow laughter and messiness
- Converse throughout lesson. Meaningful conversation. Not just a standard lecture. See what the child is absorbing or missing all together
- 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
bit.ly/kidblg #parenting #thingslegendsaremadeof ~
Why do parents continue to send their children to an establishment that allows them to be mistreated, humiliated, hurt, and harassed enough that the poor child would prefer to be dead?
I recently read an article about a 11 year old who wanted to commit suicide because his equally bullied friend had. It hurt my heart.
How, as adults are we continuing to let this happen? I can't understand why consistent bullying isn't upgraded from "playground behavior?" It becomes stalking, harassment, mental abuse and whatever it is called when directed at an adult and should be charged as such.
The little demons who inact day to day, gang mentality, mindless harassment on another child should be made to pay in some form.
Those in charge should be held accountable. If you continue sending your child into direct harm you're just as guilty of abuse for sending your child to be terrorized. And you're paying for your child to be beat by paying taxes to the school system.
Sure, parents step forward and fight this, the first and main step is to keep your child home. There is no protection for him on the bus or at school. I can't see how that is any different than sending your child to be abused by an adult. Child Protective Services would eat your ass for that, yet they do nothing when the abuser is the educational system.
It may not work, but as a parent, I would file charges on the Principal, administration, the evil, abusive, phychotic children and their parents and whomever else to get something to happen. These deviants are winning while the tortured children have lost faith in the adults and are killing themselves.
Ridiculousness.
Read more from Ey Wade through her website http://wade-inpublishing.com
Stop the Bullshit.School Bullying is not Playground Behavior
bullying +
Ey Wade +
lawsuits +
parenting +
school +
suicide
I recently read an article about a 11 year old who wanted to commit suicide because his equally bullied friend had. It hurt my heart.
How, as adults are we continuing to let this happen? I can't understand why consistent bullying isn't upgraded from "playground behavior?" It becomes stalking, harassment, mental abuse and whatever it is called when directed at an adult and should be charged as such.
The little demons who inact day to day, gang mentality, mindless harassment on another child should be made to pay in some form.
Those in charge should be held accountable. If you continue sending your child into direct harm you're just as guilty of abuse for sending your child to be terrorized. And you're paying for your child to be beat by paying taxes to the school system.
Sure, parents step forward and fight this, the first and main step is to keep your child home. There is no protection for him on the bus or at school. I can't see how that is any different than sending your child to be abused by an adult. Child Protective Services would eat your ass for that, yet they do nothing when the abuser is the educational system.
It may not work, but as a parent, I would file charges on the Principal, administration, the evil, abusive, phychotic children and their parents and whomever else to get something to happen. These deviants are winning while the tortured children have lost faith in the adults and are killing themselves.
Ridiculousness.
Read more from Ey Wade through her website http://wade-inpublishing.com
Ridiculousness.
Read more from Ey Wade through her website http://wade-inpublishing.com
Those first few weeks back in school can be very trying for the child at no matter what age. As the parent you aren't left out of the anxiety pool. As a matter of fact the entire family is thrown in head first, rather you are ready or not. I have just a few questions.
1. Have you REALLY checked out the person or establishment that will be caring for your child? Don't believe because you have done this before you know all of the signs of incompetence, and or neglect. This article Who Is Caring For Your Child at bloggingauthors.com asks some very pointed questions. Check it out
2. Are you paying attention to your older child? Don't ignore the sullenness, look of sadness and the rude attitude. Ask yourself, "Is my child being bullied?" "What's really going on in his/her life?"
Free on Smashwords- D.N.A.-Nothing Would Ever Be the Same
Free with Coupon Code: LK32U on Smashwords- The Perfect Solution
New Clothes Aren't the Only Thing Needed for School
1st day of school +
bullying +
childcare +
D.N.A. +
Ey Wade +
parenting +
school
Those first few weeks back in school can be very trying for the child at no matter what age. As the parent you aren't left out of the anxiety pool. As a matter of fact the entire family is thrown in head first, rather you are ready or not. I have just a few questions.1. Have you REALLY checked out the person or establishment that will be caring for your child? Don't believe because you have done this before you know all of the signs of incompetence, and or neglect. This article Who Is Caring For Your Child at bloggingauthors.com asks some very pointed questions. Check it out
2. Are you paying attention to your older child? Don't ignore the sullenness, look of sadness and the rude attitude. Ask yourself, "Is my child being bullied?" "What's really going on in his/her life?"
Free on Smashwords- D.N.A.-Nothing Would Ever Be the Same
Free with Coupon Code: LK32U on Smashwords- The Perfect Solution
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