Aussie Childcare Network Forum

1 you need to give health and hygiene practices you would carry out specifically for the Easter egg hunt-please consider.
2 to find three resources that are informative in other educators the importance of healthy eating-please find three and resubmit
3 A new educator has started working at your service. During meal times you have observed her making statements to the children like, ‘You won’t be getting any dessert unless you eat all of your lunch’, ‘Children who don’t eat all of their food won’t get presents off Santa Claus’, ‘I’m not giving you a drink until you eat all of your carrots’ and ‘Well if you don’t eat the casserole I won’t give you anything else to eat. You will just have to go hungry’.
Complete the following:
a) Identify the Education and Care Services National Regulation this educator is breaching by making these statements.
b) Explain how this staff member is acting unethically and undermining the rights of the children in their care.Make reference to the National Quality Standard, Belonging, Being and Becoming – The Early Years Learning Framework,Early Childhood Australia Code of Ethics and United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in your answer.
please help soon...done my best but trainer want this stuff more...

hi below ans were what i come up with
1)I will encourage children to wash their hands before opening and eating Easter egg. Establish a boundaries for egg hunt and let children know that they have to stay/remain and look for egg within the set boundaries. Ensure area is insects free. Keep the Easter egg out of sun. Make sure that children don’t climb on gate, furniture to look for Easter eggs.
2) The resources I would provide to the other educators are:

Positive meal times in family day care- http://ncac.acecqa.gov.au/educator resources/factsheets/fdcqa_factsheet_28.pdf
Health, safety and wellbeing- www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/
Ways to Encourage Self-Help Skills in Children- http://www.extension.org/pages/26436/wa ... ctVVflVikp

Its provide information that: Children have a drive to be independent and do things on their own. This is a healthy part of normal child development. As children grow, they learn to do more and more tasks and as a Child care providers we can help young children become independent by allowing and encouraging them to take responsibility for themselves whenever possible.

3)
a)Education and Care Services National Regulations
PART 4.5—RELATIONSHIPS WITH CHILDREN
155 Interactions with children An approved provider must take reasonable steps to ensure that the education and care service provides education and care to children in a way that—
(a) encourages the children to express themselves and their opinions; and (b) allows the children to undertake experiences that develop self-reliance and self-esteem; and (c) maintains at all times the dignity and rights of each child; and (d) gives each child positive guidance and encouragement toward acceptable behaviour; and (e) has regard to the family and cultural values, age, and physical and intellectual development and abilities of each child being educated and cared for by the service.
This is relevant to quality area 5 of the National Standard.