Early childhood workers can make an enormous difference • W elcome friends and family of parents to your centre or service to children and their families by: and acknowledge to all parents that it ‘takes a village to raise • p roviding stability for the child if the child usually visits a child’. [...] Friends or family may accompany a parent to the their centre regularly childcare centre or kindergarten: • p roviding a source of useful information in order to help – t o help establish smoother transition between home the parent connect with services that can assist them and care/education setting • helping the parent to access the help they need – as the parent may feel too intimidated on their. [...] If so, • having a key worker assigned to each child to enhance their do they have a plan now for what to do if it happens again or capacity to have a strong and positive relationship with an adult to prevent it re-occuring? (See the reference to care planning • helping children learn to use a trusted adult to assist them. [...] use a consistent positive way of greeting and farewelling the child each day) • s upporting the parent to access other services to assist them to develop their relationship with their child if necessary A tip from a parent: • helping the parent learn how to use the adults in your setting to assist them with their child’s feelings and problems ‘I was extremely anxious • reassuring the parent that r. [...] the childcare centre staff of them interacting happily The Piecing the Puzzle Together booklet also encourages parents to develop a care with other kids plan for their child at the centre.’ • Your skills in observing behaviours of the child may provide a means of opening up conversation with the parent but may also If, in fact, the child is well settled and lead to concerns or questions about what.
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