I Personally Do Not Work With Children

In chapter four of Looking Out/Looking In the author talked about the different aspects of emotions, such as, what emotions are, influences on emotions, how to express emotions, and how to manage difficult emotions.

When working with children and young people it is important to know the aims and responsibilities for your setting.

All members of the staff must act as professionals while at work, especially with young children. The administrative and teaching staff must work together to ensure their practices are developmentally appropriate, and share new and/or creative ideas with one another. It is also the responsibility of a teacher to establish an open, trusting relationship with the parents of each children in their care. Thus, parents can freely communicate their thoughts, concerns, and/or suggestions about their child or the program. Parent satisfaction is something that every child care or development center should strive for.

The front door squeaks close. One’s child arrived home at 1:00 AM, but was instructed to be home at 10:00 PM. That child came home with his parents waiting on the stairs with hands on their waists. His parents yelled at the boy for twenty minutes and had all electronic devices taken away from him, but the parents needed to first understand what their children did, and how he could have solved the problem. Families shouldn't feel upset and ignore their children because they broke a rule; they should sit down with their child and listen to what they have to say. It’s important for a child to recognize what they did and give them options on how they want to resolve them. Throughout this unit, many parenting styles were presented, including Baumrind's

Managing feelings and behaviour: children talk about how they and others show feelings, talk about their own and others’ behaviour, and its consequences, and know that some behaviour is unacceptable. They work as part of a group or class, and understand and follow the rules. They adjust their behaviour to different situations, and take changes of routine in their stride.

If it is possible to work with the child’s parents, there is a need for good communication skills, using unbiased language and neutrality.

United Kingdom as a nation has national minimum standards requirements for children’s care homes. The current policies that govern those minimum standards include Children Leaving Care Act 2000, Human Rights Act 1998, Office for National Statistics and Local Authority circulars (e.g. LAC (2004). There is emphasis on multi-agency working following a child centred

Being able to communicate effectively with children, young people and adults is vital in order to form positive and professional relationships with them. It can help build self-worth and confidence in a child, young person or adult whilst also promote trust. Effective communication needs to be direct, quick and easily understood by the recipient. If not, it can cause a breakdown in communication leading to misunderstandings and have a negative impact on the relationship between those involved. Communicating in a positive way and getting to know the people involved can be useful in understanding their own individual needs. Some children do not have the same positive relationships at home with family members as they do at school, and so they

Our parents raise us hoping for us to develop certain character traits, but there comes to a point when we start to become our own person based on the experiences we go through, any situation, good or bad, can influence our personality mentally and emotionally. Emotion is what makes us human, it's how we cope and how we manage our crazy lives’. When our feelings get damaged or even nourished, it will change how we react

The author's intention is to not only present accurate information for the readers, but also grant them a space to reflect on the emotional truth in order to have the ability to take actions on their own terms.

Parents and children will be divided into groups and on occasion join together for group sessions (“Strengthening Families Program”, n.d.). The age of the children are broken down into 4 groups consisting of: pre-school 3-5 years, elementary school 6-11 years, junior high 10-14 years, early teens and high school 12-16 years (“Strengthening Families Program”, n.d.). The group of children that I will be facilitating is the early teens and high school. The outlines for the sessions are as follows: session 1: getting started and dreams, session 2: speaking and listening, session 3: staying cool in conflicts, session 4: being who you want to be, session 5: speaking for yourself, session 6: speaking up in your family, session 7: handling peer pressure and temptation, session 8: alcohol and drugs, session 9: problem Solving, session 10: friends dating and sexuality, session 11: managing emotions, session 12: handling criticism, session 13: coping with anger, and session 14: resources, review and

Because of this novel, it became clearer to me that our emotions affect our decisions and the way we treat people around us. We should not let our

As my experience working with children grows, I would like to gain the skills necessary to run a preschool program. I have worked primarily with infants and toddlers in the past few months, which has become a new focus of mine. Working with such young children allows me to have a productive impact on their cognitive development. This opportunity has been a great encouragement and I hope to run an infant-toddler program within a larger school. My more immediate goals are centered around gaining experiences in different facilities. By exposing myself to different programs and their unique styles, I will be able to see how different procedures, like those for resolving conflict, work for children. With time, these ideas would be integrated into my own program.

Every day, I water and feed my cows and chickens. I don’t get paid to do so,and I am fine with that. Why should someone get paid for helping his or her family out? Many kids argue that they should be paid for helping out, while others disagree. In my opinion, kids shouldn’t be paid to do chores, because they are a part of life.

Children enter the world as part of preexisting systems. They enter parental systems and families that already have rules, roles and boundaries, and more are made as children grow and the family develops. These transitions can be confusing and challenging for all members involved leading to feelings of fear, anger and even helplessness. Members within the family