Preschoolers Teaching For Life

Preschoolers Teaching For Life

• Self disciplined children know how to behave and can control their behaviour themselves. We want them to learn self discipline.
• Discipline and punishment are not the same. Discipline provides guidance.
• Punishment is merely a penalty for making a mistake. Children rarely, if ever, learn correct or acceptable behaviour through punishment.
• Self discipline comes from feeling secure, having good relationships with people, knowing what we can and can't do, being confident and having self control. Children appreciate guidelines that are constant rather than rules which change regularly.
• Teaching for life begins at birth:
  • Babies learn trust because they are loved and cared for.
  • Toddlers learn it is safe to move around the house because their parents have made it safe.
  • Young children learn they can try new things and that adults will help them work out what is safe to try.
• When children play alone they learn about themselves.
• When they play with others children learn to make decisions and take risks. Sometimes they learn the decisions were not good ones. Sometimes they need help to see that their decisions were not good for other people.
• Children slowly learn to make decisions about themselves and to take responsibility for their behaviour. Parents teach them by explaining how and why some behaviour is unsafe, unkind or hurtful.
• Parents also help their children by showing what makes a good friend and how to make responsible decisions. By working together to plan, organise and make things happen, we teach for life.

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