Parenting Reflection

Children need structure, guidance, and discipline. Keeping a close eye on one’s children will alert a parent as to when something is going wrong. Children are what they live, so teaching parent’s how to be good parent’s is not only going to benefit the parents but the children as well, instead of having monster heredity, them may have wonderful heredity genes for generations to

Establishing positive parenting skills within the community will assist the parents in gaining new alternatives to their current practices. “Often we get the same families that are repeat offenders or they never really learn their ways of parenting are not acceptable” (Ruiz, 2015). Providing the “Strong Families” curriculum will reduce the number of children that are

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

In order to promote cooperative parenting the issues of divorce and family separation will need to be addressed. David

When becoming an educator people have to remember that you’re not just working with children. Working with their parents is a huge part of the job too. Most parents want to stay informed on their child’s education so communication to them plays a huge role. I thought the parent panel was excellent. I think there is no better way to understand a child than to hear inside information from their parent. After leaving the panel I felt more prepared than ever in regards to communication with parents as a future educator.

As a professional football coach and been working with children for the past thirty years, the motivation I have to study this module is I believe the children are our future and to help children to develop their potential by believing in them as capable individuals. While it can be amazing for the children when we get involved in their activities, they aren’t the only ones that benefit and with my experience as a coach and also speaking to their parents I can say that as a coach I have gained a great deal from their experience and I feel It’s an important thing to never stop learning, I also believe it’s this what keeps us young and helps us to relate to the children as they develop new skills and it shows the children that you’re willing to get out of your comfort zone, this I feel is a really good thing for me as a coach to role model and to know the importance of installing positive values in the children, so they themselves can learn a lot of life lessons along the way, I feel the number one reason kids play a sport, in my opinion, is that its fun and honestly, so is coaching by getting to know the kids, helping them learn, seeing them gain confidence, and taking risks is part of what makes it so great, for me as a coach you get to run around and play with the kids and that is fun at any age.

There are many key factors that play into a child’s development, the most important of these: the early childhood educator. The early childhood educator plays the role of primary influence in the child’s life, encouraging relationships between parent and child and establishing relationships between parent and teacher, helping the child’s skill set expand and they’re mental, emotional, and spiritual capacities to grow. The feelings I get when I become a influential force in a child’s life along with there thirst for knowledge and life around them is what excites me about working with young children, t touching them spiritually and help them become all that they can be.

Coe writes that spiritual formation involves “[joining] in following my example, and [observing] those who walk according to the pattern you have in us” (Phil. 3:17). In other words, through relationships with their parents, children learn spirituality first from their parents, observing and copying how they deal with issues, walk in a spiritual journey, and more. The parent’s role is to awaken the God-given capacities and desires as they interact with their children so that they can form healthy attachments to God as well.

I was terrified when I first started working at the United Cerebral Palsy Child Development Center. Looking back, I had never changed a diaper, used person first language or learned how to communicate with the children through positive reinforcement. During my first day of training, I observed the language that the teachers were using, how to interact with the children, and watched for opportunities to assist the teachers. For example, when trying to communicate with children, it is better to say “walking feet” instead of “stop running” because the children are going to hear the word run and continue; whereas, if a child hears walk, he or she is more likely to know to slow down and walk. Fluctuating between 25-40 hours each week, I have spent ample time observing, educating, and bettering myself to be a good caregiver and person.

Intro-I am working on becoming a more competent communicator and disciplinarian, without escalating conflict, specifically with my five teenage children, ages 17, 15, 14, 14 and 14. After my divorce, my children were exhibiting at risk behaviors, such as sneaking out of the home, disregarding family rules and expectations with regard to homework, chores and their overall safety. Eventually, a friend referred me to Youth Services. This resulted in attending Strengthening Families, a weekly class taught over ten weeks aimed at reducing conflict and finding new ways to communicate with my children. The class provides an atmosphere for me to work with youth counselors who actively assist me in changing my parenting style to successfully implement a more collaborative approach. I have been a parent for 22 years, thus, I found changing the ways in which I respond to conflict to be difficult. However, I also realize that now I’m parenting alone. Through my coursework in this class, my research and my hands on practice with Strengthening Families I have been able to adopt a more collaborative approach to managing conflict.

Drama, as Heatchote ( Wagner, 1999) put it, is not special . It is something that people do everyday for different purposes , in a complex process that involve their emotion, imaginations, and intelligence. People recreate ( re-live) a past event or visualize ( pre-live) an upcoming role that they have to cope with . If it does not happen visually for other people to see, then it may occur only in our minds . One close example of this mental imaging activity is the act of lesson planning by teachers. When planning a lesson I often imagine what I will do in a class to make sure that I would do it properly . I will think how to begin : what ice breakers I will use to build up a case and how I will deliver them. As I think of core activities to have in a class, my mind also wonders about what jokes I will tell when students show signs of boredom and how I will deliver them. At times, my mind brought me to the memories of past incidents or successful teaching events and have all them mashed up with the plan. Soon as I have them organized, these staged plans are stored on writing forms , but many of them are just stored in my memory.

1. What went well today? Provide 3 specific examples of children’s actions/comments that occurred during self-selected activities. What evidence do you have for your conclusion? DO NOT use the words, “loved, liked, enjoyed;” rather describe the evidence of children’s reactions to the learning experience.

I went to Richmond provincial court for the court visiting project on October 26, 2017. The courtroom number is 104 and the level of court is provincial. There was only one judge, one clerk and one bailiff in the court. The judge is female, but I do not have her name. There were numbers of applications had been discussed in the courtroom and most of them were related to driver license and child parenting issues. Most of driver licence issues only took around less than 5 minutes because they were arranged for the next court session with documents required. However, when it came to child parenting, it took longer time. There was an application related to child parenting. A father walked into courtroom with his son and the mother was with a lawyer.

As I did this week’s reading I felt like I was able to relate to several statements in the introduction and the beginning of chapter one from the book, Why We Teach Now. Nieto started several reasons why teachers are leaving the profession. She also spoke about hearing acronyms, and test related jargon more than learning and fun when it came to conversations about teaching. (2014) I did not want to be part of that anymore so I left the profession for a couple years ago. I felt burnt out, overworked, underappreciated, and frustrated that I felt like student’s needs were not being met.

I am working on becoming a more competent communicator and disciplinarian, without escalating conflict, specifically with my five teenage children, ages 17, 15, 14, 14 and 14. After my divorce, my children were exhibiting at risk behaviors, such as sneaking out of the home, disregarding family rules and expectations with regard to homework, chores and their overall safety. Eventually, a friend referred me to Youth Services. This resulted in attending Strengthening Families, a weekly class taught over ten weeks aimed at reducing conflict and finding new ways to communicate with my children. The class provides an atmosphere for me to work with youth counselors who actively assist me in changing my parenting style to successfully implement a more collaborative approach. I have been a parent for 22 years; thus, I found changing the ways in which I respond to conflict to be difficult. However, I also realize that now I’m parenting alone. Through my coursework in this class, my research and my hands on practice with Strengthening Families I have been able to adopt a more collaborative approach to managing conflict. In what follows I will review the literature and a specific class I took that has helped me identify weaknesses in my parenting style and ways I have reduced conflict in my home.