COURSE OVERVIEW:
Good quality care is essential for babies, toddlers and children. Their health and well-being needs to be supported and protected. But good care of children is an effective support of their all-round development. Care routines can be a valuable time for supporting children’s sense of self-worth and their understanding of how their world works. The role of an early childhood practitioner, at a child care centre, is not only to offer good quality care to children but to support them as they learn to take care of themselves, growing in the skills of self-reliance.
An integral part of caring for children’s development is caring about them as individuals. It is vital that children should feel confident that the key adults in their lives care about them and what happens to them. This vital and positive message is communicated to children through the care routines of a day or session in early childhood settings or in your work as a home based child carer in your own home.
Any early child care setting, whatever its name, should combine a positive outlook on and good quality in care routines with a wide range of opportunities for children to learn, some of which will be in the form of ‘educational’ activities. Children need to be and feel cared for, which creates a healthy state and positive psychological frame of mind to allow them to benefit from all the opportunities to learn within their day.
After completing this course you should be able to; understand and appreciate the central importance of care and caring for children, promote children’s self-reliance as they share in their own care and daily routines, follow appropriate practice in hygiene for an early childhood setting, organise appropriate routines to support children’s sleep and rest and support children in their toilet training.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
By the end of this course, you will be able to understand:
- The central importance of care and caring for children
- How ‘care’ and ‘education’ are equally important?
- Why care matters so much?
- How to support children’s emotional and social development?
- The sources of concerns about physical contact with children
- How to help children learn about appropriate touch?
- How to promote self-reliance through routines and sharing care?
- The value of care routines
- Good practice for the physical care of children
- How to support and encourage children?
- Why adult attention to children’s skills of self-reliance can be an effective way to promote other areas of their development?
- Why young children need to feel positive about being more self-reliant?
- The impact of disability
- How children can be partners in helping out in the daily routines?
- The step by step learning process
- The cleanliness and personal hygiene of children
- The appropriate standards of cleanliness in the play area
- The hygiene needs of babies and young toddlers
- The strict standards of hygiene in the kitchen and bathroom
- Hygiene procedures and sharing the care on hygiene
- How to set a good example in hygiene that will promote health without making children over-anxious about bugs and germs?
- How to keep children safe from the sun?
- Hair care of children
- Clothes and dressing for children
- How children grow self-reliance?
- Rest and activity for children
- Sleeping patterns of children
- Bedtime routines and night waking
- Teaching children self-reliance with toileting
- When are children ready for toilet training?
- How to help children to become toilet trained?
- Constipation and its signs
- What you need to do when children are constipated?
- Diarrhoea and what you need to do when children have diarrhoea?
- Getting the children dry at night
- What to consider when toilet training older disabled children?
COURSE DURATION:
The typical duration of this course is approximately 2-3 hours to complete. Your enrolment is Valid for 12 Months. Start anytime and study at your own pace.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
You must have access to a computer or any mobile device with Adobe Acrobat Reader (free PDF Viewer) installed, to complete this course.
COURSE DELIVERY:
Purchase and download course content.
ASSESSMENT:
A simple 10-question true or false quiz with Unlimited Submission Attempts.
CERTIFICATION:
Upon course completion, you will receive a customised digital “Certificate of Completion”.