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Celebrating Care
June 14, 2021
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
-Gail Sheehy
-Gail Sheehy
I can’t stop re-reading Carol Garboden Murray’s terrific new book, Illuminating Care. Carol expresses so beautifully many of the things so many of us believe about the nobility of the early childhood field. Whether we work directly with young children or support the people who do, we know in our hearts that our children deserve dedicated adults in their lives who celebrate the privilege of offering love through care.
It occurs to me that all of us could do more to express our PRIDE in our work. We can advocate through letters to the editor or to politicians. We can also educate others through informal conversations...with friends, family members, neighbors. Do others really understand the importance of the caring relationships educators form with young children? Do they understand that care offered with love nurtures compassionate children who will become adults who have the power to create a more compassionate world?
What could be more important?
I’d love it if you would share with me, in the comments, about ways you are celebrating and advocating for excellent care.
With gratitude,
Nancy Rosenow
Exchange Publisher,
on behalf of our entire team
It occurs to me that all of us could do more to express our PRIDE in our work. We can advocate through letters to the editor or to politicians. We can also educate others through informal conversations...with friends, family members, neighbors. Do others really understand the importance of the caring relationships educators form with young children? Do they understand that care offered with love nurtures compassionate children who will become adults who have the power to create a more compassionate world?
What could be more important?
I’d love it if you would share with me, in the comments, about ways you are celebrating and advocating for excellent care.
With gratitude,
Nancy Rosenow
Exchange Publisher,
on behalf of our entire team
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Comments (2)
Displaying All 2 CommentsLincoln, Nebraska, Australia
Trisha, I loved reading about your classroom environment! It sounds like a wonderful experience.
-Tiffany at Exchange
Eskay Kids
Brassall, Queensland, Australia
We have moved from a model of age grouped rooms, where children transition when they are "ready" (aka old enough) for the next group. Changing environments, primary carers, and even friendship groups. We now place children into a care group when they start with us (each group with children from 15months to 5years). Siblings are together in a group also. They stay in this primary care group. No transitioning, no upsetting. Our whole service has been adjusted to have the doors to all rooms (and the outdoors) open all the time, allowing children to flow between spaces which all offer different experiences. It's magical!
All the research talks about the importance of continuing relationships with significant adults and the advantages of this for children. When we knew this, we knew we had to find a way to give children what they deserve, and what will give them the best outcomes through their entire lives.
Change is essential. When we know better - we MUST do better. We can't just sit on it, excusing our staid practice with regulations and what has historically been done. We need to stand up for children and childhood!
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