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Zero To Three is the Early Childhood Organization that I selected because it provides a lot of information about early development and well-being, early learning, parenting, and policies and advocacy. This is a great website for anyone that would like to learn more about children's development and about the ECE field.
Zero To Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Familieshttp://www.zerotothree.org/ or http://www.zerotothree.org/about-us/ )
(Newsletters:
http://zttcfn.pub30.convio.net/child-development/from-baby-to-big-kid/ and
http://capwiz.com/zerotothree/mlm/signup/ )
Current issue:
Discipline and Limit Setting
In order to follow rules and understand limits, children need to develop self-control.
Self-control and self-regulation are complex skills that begin to emerge in the early months of life but are not fully developed until between four and five years of age (Zero to Three).
On the website, we can read more about how young children learn self-control through interactions with peers, parents, and other loving adults. Understanding this is very crucial and beneficial not only for educators, but also for parents and anyone that interacts with young children because sometimes we expect young children to follow rules and understand limits, when in fact, they have not fully developed self-control. We can also help children develop self-control by providing them with the positive interactions and experiences that they need in order to achieve this milestone.
In my many years working with children, I have seen some centers that use "time out" for children as young as two years old because the children are "not" following the rules so learning about this issue can help us better understand young children's development and what they are capable of doing at every age and how we can help them to continue learning.
Reyna,
ReplyDeleteI agree that self control and self regulation are both very important in the early years. My daughter is a young five and she STILL has trouble with them as well. She will do silly things even if I ask her not to. Like when feeding the dog we use the scoop , instead of pouring it out of the bag. She will lift the bag up everytime and get dog food in the floor, and say but mom I know I can do it and NOT make a mess. She cant control herself! LOL..So then I use time out too. Time out is definatly a great way to help teach children right from wrong. Especially in the early childhood field. This gives them a moment to hopefully think about what they did wrong and learn from this process as they get older.I have never heard of this site but I will be visiting it very soon. It seems to be very informative and a site that many early childhood educators can benifit. I love all the pictures you added to your blog this week. Great Post!
Misty
Reyna, I also support your post and think that even as adults this teaching is STILL required. The earlier we can educate the kids about these topics will help a lot. I struggle with the same issues with by boys and it's not easy but it will take time for kids to adopt.
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I couldn't agree more about understanding that children don't fully understand how to self-regulate until 4 or 5 years of age. Many parents try to discipline their children to early and get mad when they don't follow the rules. We have to understand where children are in their development in order to help them. Understanding when self-regulation is comprehended will help the parents have more patience and not punish the child for something they can't help from doing yet.
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