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While school-age children are increasingly becoming independent and looking to peers for acceptance, they still need caring, loving, and responsive caregivers for emotional support.
Providers often see school-age children after they have put in a long day at school. They need opportunities to meet their physical needs for activity by running, climbing, and tumbling, as well as opportunities for rest, social interaction and food. |
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To meet their personal growth needs, accepting adults must supervise but not overprotect or over-direct school-age children, even while encouraging their independence. School-age children are old enough to have input on classroom rules and expectations. They enjoy planning some of their own activities. By allowing school-age children to give input and allowing them to plan, you will foster their self-esteem and feelings of self-worth and competency.
- To meet the emotional needs of school-age children, make sure you:
- Create a positive, close relationship with each child in your care
- Provide opportunities for them to express growing independence and self-reliance (such as making choices, planning, and initiating their own activities)
- Encourage them to draw and write stories about self,
family, and cultural practices
- Help them to feel protected, but not controlled
- Display their work and photos of themselves and their families
- Have them create ground rules that are minimal in number and consistently applied
- Help them recognize their own strengths
- Provide learning experiences that respond to their individual differences in ability and interests
- Give them appropriate responsibilities such as caring for pets and plants, setting the table, and helping to prepare projects for group activities
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