"To judge what is truly harmful and not in a child, family, or community's best interests requires a deep understanding of the perspective of the person or family you are working with and the meanings behind their behaviors."
- Janet Gonzalez-Mena (DIVERITSITY AND DISCIPLINE)
"Part of being who you are has to do with feeling your feelings, which means you'll have a wide range of emotions--not just constant sunshiny happiness."
- Janet Gonzalez-Mena (Child, Family, and Community: Family-Centered Early Care and Education (5th Edition))
"Development is a continuous process; experiences at any given age are affected by and built on experiences that have come before"
-Edward Zigler, 1983, (Discerning the future of early childhood intervention)
“I have long believed that the development of a child does not begin the day he is born -or at age three - but much earlier, during the formative years of his parents”
- Edward Zigler, (Childhood education, Volume 48, p 10, 1971), (PTA Magazine, volume 68, 1973).
"Parents need support, with a little bit resourse, access to the resourse, they can accomplish their goal"
- Leticia Lara LCSW (Laureate Education Inc. 2010, Foundation: Early Childhood Studies [DVD])
Your first quote by Gonzalez - Mena is one that requires people to respect the people to understand their behavior. You must also understand their culture.
ReplyDeleteThe second quote leads me to question whether or not feelings and emotions are the same thing??
Your quote form Janet Gonzalez-Mena, makes me wonder how our feelings motivate us to do what we do as Early Childhood professional because passion has to play a part of our emotions.
ReplyDeleteI like your second quote a lot. It reminds me that it is ok for people to see other emotions than happiness, especially children. If they only see you as happy (or the mask of happiness that you wear around them), they can not learn about emotions. Children watch your every move and learn from how you deal with your emotions. It is ok for them to see you mad or frustrated, as long as you also show them how to deal with it in a proper manner. How can they learn to deal with hard emotions unless we show them?
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with Rene. Emotions and hormones are brewing in my fifth graders from this point on (it usually starts just before Valentine's Day). We talk a lot about how to deal with your emotions and how to react to others. This is just the beginning for them in having to deal with this. And unfortunately, most of my students' parents are not there or do not know how to deal with emotions themselves. We also talk about how you don't have to like everyone, just treat them with respect and kindness. I give the example of my fellow teachers and how I don't necessarily like all of them, but I have to get along and work with them. It's okay to feel how you feel about others, just be a good person about it.
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