Program Description

It is our goal to provide loving care for children who must be separated from their parents every day: care that includes eating, sleeping and toileting experiences, care that includes academics (preschool program) and social experiences, care that includes friendship with adults other than their parents, and care that meets the unique growth and developmental needs of each individual child.

We are open Monday thru Friday from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. There is no weekend care. Children are expected to be in no later than 9:00 a.m. so the child is part of all the activities throughout the day.

My Staff

My staff and I take a minimum of 30 hours of continuing education classes and have received certificates in “Early Childhood Education”.  My staff has been cleared through the Department of Justice during the live scan finger print process, have current T.B. test reading negative or a chest updated annually and a CPR/First Aid Certificate updated every 2 years. You are welcome to view any documents posted pertaining to this child care at any time. Updating our professional skills gives us the confidence in knowing we are offering quality and loving, understanding care to your child’s first years of educational and nurturing experience.

Discipline

It is my desire here in my daycare to help/teach children to develop the healthy emotions of love, confidence, and self-worth by teaching and building self-control and self-disipline.  Disipline is something that needs to be learned, just like other subject matter. Children learn good behavior by:

• Example: Children learn appropriate and inappropriate behavior by looking to us as examples. If we are anxious, angry, inconsistent and domineering, our children will be distant, unconcerned, punitive, and weak.  If we are self-controlled, confident, loving and just our children will be likewise.
• Instruction: Communication and instruction are probably the most important element of discipline. Children feel secure, loved and confident when they know there are definite boundaries and expectations. We teach specific expectations by using techniques such as defining work spaces, instruction on use of material and providing a variety of choices from which children may choose.
• Practice & Positive Reinforcement: We can help a child learn self-discipline and self-control by positive reinforcement such as hugs, an encouraging word or a star on a chart for good helpers or reward at the end of the week.
• Making Mistakes: When a child makes mistakes it is our responsibility to respond to the negative behavior. There are steps to teaching self-discipline with this method. We should not let frustration and anger provoke us to jump to step #5 listed below without  going through  the other steps, because then we have no other resources.
•  

Five steps of assertive discipline:

These are the steps that we will take when negative behavior has been displayed:

1. Speak to the child directly, making eye contact. Be firm and speak to the child individually. Explain your expectations and their choices.
2. Re-direct the child to another activity. Explain that he/she made the wrong choice and what would have being a better choice.
3. Loss of privilege.  Explain that the improper use of material or a bad choice will cause the child to lose the privilege.
4. Social Isolation/Time Out. Remove the child to a chair facing away from activities. Explain that he/she will have to sit there until he/she can control herself/himself. We’ll return after no longer than five minutes and restate his/her expectations, tell him/her that we love them and give them a hug. This may have to be repeated more than once for the child to make a connection.
5. Repeated and consistent disobedience would be reported to the parent/guardian and at the time a plan will be developed to include one or more of the following:

• Child may need to be picked up from day care.
• Ask the parent to intervene with appropriate discipline.
• Recommendation for professional intervention.
• Termination of contract.
• Discipline is instruction or training designed to correct misbehavior and develop the disciplined one. It does not involve justice, punishment or getting even. Remember parents, children are little people without experience and it is up to us; parents, family, teachers and child care providers to teach them right from wrong.