Childcare services enable children to build better self-expression
also important as there is a varied cross-section available: sessional services, full or part-time, drop-in centres, childminding, full day care services, even overnight childcare services which facilitates the working arrangements of parents/guardians for a total of more than 2 hours between the hours of 7pm and 6am.
It’s envisaged that an additional 25,000 children will now benefit from the change in 2018. Moreover, the new scheme will also abolish the current ambiguity whereby children born in September 2015 were only entitled to 61 weeks of free pre-school.
For more information on how to avail of the Early Childhood Care and Education scheme, contact Kerry County Childcare Committee located at Monavalley Business Park, Tralee on: 066 7181582. Or visit: www.kerrycountychildcare.com OFTEN the idea of inspiring a child tends to be a projection of adult ideas which doesn’t always equate to a child’s concept of the world as they see it. Childcare experts tend to take this train of thought into account and while ‘inspiring’ a child is hugely important, enabling a child to express their own personality is perhaps a more rounded way of encouraging self-development.
Allow children to mix freely in a way that allows them to find their own ‘self ’. Often this is done through play and interaction with other children as studies show kids communicate through expressive play rather than verbally at a young age. Childcare centres encourage this interaction as they know it enhances emotional and social development. With childcare, having the patience to allow children develop in their own world in their own time is what eventually enables them to become better adults.
Self-development commences from the moment we’re born and at no stage in life do we stop learning. Childcare, from infants to preschool stage, is a process of incremental development where at each level more is learned about a child’s personality through play and self-expression. Childcare centres are basically gentle stepping stones where children can make the transition from home to the outside world in comfort and in their own space and time.
Playtime should be from the child’s own perspective and by incorporating many therapeutic aspects. This means that by enabling a child to self-develop - instead of trying to inspire from the view of the adult’s world - is a better approach. Reassuring and encouraging a child to familiarise themselves with the confines of their own world is the best way of enabling them to understand and make the transition to our world.