Saturday, May 12, 2012
Your Personal Research Journey
The topic I chose is "Culturally Responsive Care and Education. I chose this topic because I know how important culture is in the development of children. Culture is transmitted from generation to generation through families making it seem normal and natural. Children tend to emulate what they see people close to them do. Families really shape the growth and development of children more than anything else. I can attest to this because my children say and do just about anything my wife and I do. My daughter is three and my son is two years of age and my son does just about everything in which his sister does. My daughter will come and sit in my lap and my son will soon follow. I wish he would follow her with the potty training though. He hates to use the potty. I've seen him sit on the potty and hold it for a long time and then be walking around and have a bowel movement. I've been trying to train him for about a year now and I'm open to all suggestions.
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Terrance,
ReplyDeleteI believe that culture plays such an important role in the development of children. I have been very impressed with Walden's program thus far in the emphasis in which they place on the role of culture and family in early childhood. I believe that this program will equip many early childhood professionals who understand the importance of culture in early childhood settings!
I enjoyed reading about what you said with regards to your own children emulating your actions and also of your son emulating your daughter! We are in the same boat with our five year old daughter being a "mini-me" and trying to mother her younger brothers, who are 2 and 1 year olds, much like she sees me doing. We are also amazed at how much the boys try to do exactly what sissy does! We are also dealing with potty training our son who is 2 and a half! We were really pushing it with him and he's stubborn, so once we backed off and let him take the lead he will now tell us when he has to go. We're a long way from actually achieving success, but we're at least on the path! I'm open to suggestions about this too! :)
Good luck!
Stacy
To start I really love the way your blog look. It makes me feel as if I am doing research. Cool. In regards to your blog I agree with you. I too have noticed that my children do quite a lot of things I do and learned from my parents. As early childhood professionals it is important for us to understand diverse cultures and their play on education to effectivley work with children.
ReplyDeleteI am also researching the topic of culture in early education. I believe some solutions to maintaining cultural values and traditions in young children will be found in teacher trainings in that area.
ReplyDeleteIn regards to potty training advice, consistancey is what I remember from many years ago...my youngest child is 30 now, it has been a long time....Good Luck.
Terrance,
ReplyDeleteCulture is such an important part of child development and with a busy schedule of balancing out work, school and home life I sometimes forget that cultural influences and children spending time with other adults like at the child development center throughout the week surround my 5 year old every day. I noticed I influence my daughter greatly as she is currently my only child. For the past week I’ve been trying out a new home workout dvd which is learning to hula. (which is a core strengthening workout) my daughter calls it “ the hula dance” and when I work out to it and get to the cool down part my child just thinks it’s the most funniest thing I do. There is a cool down stretch which involves bending down for a calf stretch and holding my arms straight out and my daughter laughs because she says I look like an “airplane and I’m flying” Then she stands next to me and does it too. Potty training is such a tough part of growing up I only heard bits and pieces of potty training a boy which involves taking dish soap and pouring it into the toilet to make “bubbles” first then bowel movements later but when my brother was potty training (growing up with two sisters) he sat down on the toilet first and it was hard for my dad to try and teach him how boys do number one in the toilet.
My child pretended she was a pretty princess at 3yrs old and when she had an accidental bowel movement in her big girl underwear I expressed to her (as I was very upset because we were trying this for weeks!) that her underwear “was not pretty for a princess and told her that we (mommy and daddy) want to keep our princess underwear clean and pretty not ugly and muddy!” and after that one incident my daughter tried her hardest to always run to the potty. And still thinks herself as a pretty princess.
I think with bowel movements it’s thinking about how the child feels before having one or the character they most likely pretend to be. I would try and turn this into like a favorite super hero something like “you want tummy muscles like batman? Captain America or… ? “they feel there powers in there tummy, and right before they save the day they go potty!” (this is just a guess to try and help.) You never know, it might work.
Hi Mr. Riley,
ReplyDeleteI enjoed reading your blog. This is an important matter. I feel that we as educators should make sure that our students are aware of their culture. Children often do what they see their parents do but do not always understand that this is sometimes a culture trait. Thanks again for the food for thought.
Erica Hines
Hello Terrence,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed your post concerning cultural responsive education and care. I think that this is a very important topic because as early childhood professionals, we should respect the cultures of all families that we serve. As professionals we should make sure that the educational setting reflects the cultures of all of the children.