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Understanding the Parent's Perspective
February 4, 2010
Being able to say 'no' and 'uh-oh' immediately puts you in the world of the counterfactual and the possible—the road not taken, the possibility that isn’t real.
-Alison Gopnik, The Philosophical Baby
-Alison Gopnik, The Philosophical Baby
"Most people have a natural tendency to blame the other. Often families get blamed or at least suspected if their child's behavior changes negatively. What is the first thing that most professionals would say when two-year-old Susan starts biting any exposed flesh she has access to, or to ten-month-old Juan won't settle down to sleep, or one-year-old Carla screams when his mom leaves in the morning? 'I wonder if something is going on at home.'
"Can you honestly say that you have ever heard a professional say in such a circumstance, 'I wonder if there is something that I'm doing or about our program that is causing this behavior?' And many families are no different — they are likely to blame the program when Elim begins to show a precocious talent for swearing. Of course he picked it up at child care!
"Unfortunately, some families are very vulnerable and do the opposite of blaming the other. They feel overly responsible for any problem or difficulty their child has. The healthiest way to approach problems or concerns with a child is with a sense of shared responsibility and a commitment to work together to solve the problem."
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Displaying All 2 CommentsAuthor: Developing Quality Care for Young Children; Corwin Pres
Rockville Centre, New York, United States
The observation by Anne Stonehouse encouraging early child care professionals and parents to see things from the others' point of view is a very important one. As I observe in my book (see above), "Most parents love their children and are totally committed to their welfare. And they want to do the right thing at all times. That's why it's so important for the child care center to have a close relationship with the parents of the children they see every day. And that relationship must be a relationship among equals, not one where the parent looks down at the child care provider as just a babysitter who can be told what to do. Or not one in which the child care provider adopts an attitude of 'we've had courses on children so we know how to raise your child.'... The lesson here is a vital one for any successful early child care program. A relationship of mutual respect and cooperation between parents and the child care center and its professional staff is essential for the program to work."
college teacher
Beaconsfield, Quebec, Canada
Your parenting package sounds very interesting and would be very effective to bring into my teaching. I am presently teaching a course in Early Childhood education. it is focused on the communication between the parents and the caregiver. it would be very benficial to have a copy of your package to show my students the parents perspective.
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