Field Experience 4551

Dodge p.6 questions

  1. Yes, you say hello and good-bye to each child and family member because when you say those saying every day you create a more welcoming environment along with making each child feel that they are important and it lets the parents also see that you value their child and themselves as well.
  2. What I think when a child is crying is that maybe the child’s parents get the chance to say goodbye because they are in a hurry to leave and go to work. If I were to see a child crying I would be sad because they are upset, but what I would do to cheer them up is to either distract them or tell them that their parents are going to be back, but until then let us look at pictures of your parents. Another thing I would do and talk to the parents have a morning routine where before they leave they will give the child one kiss and three hugs and keep that as a daily drop off routine so the child won’t cry as much.
  3. Some explaination that I would tell to the parents is that the child has some attachments during drop off and that is does throw off their routine at school. I would tell them something small or simple like giving them a kiss goodbye and reassure the child that they will be back, and that they will have a great day at school.
  4. Some ways to reunite the children to their parents at the end of the day is having the children create something for them like a painting or a drawing of them so when their parents pick them up they have a little surprise for them. I think if the parents knew that the children cry after they leave they would change their schedule to leave the house eariler so they have time to say a proper good-bye to their kids so they wouldn’t feel that abandonment from them.