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Parents spend only a few minutes each day dropping off and picking their children up from our schools. During these few moments, they get only a general impression of what their child's experience will be or has been.It is also true that arrival and departure transitions are among the most frantic times in an early childhood program's day. Parents are usually anxious to get to work or back home and many children resist quick transitions.
This picture is further complicated by changes in staff members to accommodate the length of the child care day, which almost guarantees that the teacher who greeted children in the morning will not be the one who sends them off at the end of the day. The result, at best, is parents who leave with little information about their child's day and ambivalent feelings about their child's experience.
Try some of the following ideas for insuring that parents get more information and that teachers have something to say to parents about the child's experience at school.
Learning a Mental Framework
The first step is to train teachers to think in terms of helping parents as they exchange information - helping parents understand their child's behavior ...