Working With Families and Communities

Chapter 12 / Planning and Administering Early Childhood Program

Aloha Everyone!

While reading this chapter I realized that working with families and communities can be a big benefit for the children especially in early childhood care. Early childhood care and family program involvement goes back to the early 1900’s one of the first pioneering programs that recognized the family is the first teacher in that child’s life. (pg. 308)

Benefits for Children: “Children are at a tremendous advantage when families and teachers agree on what they expect children will learn and be able to do.” (pg. 310)

Benefits for Families: “Parents benefit when they take advantage of opportunities to participate in their children’s early childhood educational experiences.” (pg. 310)

Working with families and communities could be very challenging for administrators and teachers. I can only speak for myself as a teacher, like I said in my last blog “I’m in it for the children” I will work with the families and the communities even if it’s very difficult. There are so many resources out there for administrators and teachers that nothing is impossible. That’s what I believe. ;-D!


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Spanking Lowers IQ / October 13, 2009

This article was very interesting to me, “Spanking lower children IQ?” CBS News medical correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton said:

“Among children ages 2 to 4, there was a five point difference between children who were spanked and those that weren't. And among children from 5 to 9 years old, there was a 2.8 point difference between the two groups. Also, the study controlled socioeconomic factors, Ashton said, such as the educational level of parents and income. However, Ashton pointed out, the study found this was just an association -- not a cause-and-effect finding.”

They must say that socioeconomic factors, educational level of parents, family income, and spanking too may lower children IQ. This I might believe. I was spank a lot of times when I was a child, but my Mother and Father also explains to me why I was being spank and 80% of the time I deserve it. Bottom line I think I came out “Okay?”
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