Aussie Childcare Network Forum

Question 1 Behaviours
All behaviour has a function and is driven by a need. Behaviours that are often deemed challenging may in fact be experimental, and as such can be understood as the child exploring the world around them and learning what it means to be individual in relationships with others.

3. Personal experiences-
The personal experiences we live shapes our beliefs and values. Reflect upon how you were disciplined as a child and how this has impacted on your values today and how this influences your practices when guiding children's behaviour within an early childhood education and care setting? Describe how your childhood experiences influence your values about disciple. Are your values aligned or misaligned to acceptable teaching of behaviours in early childhood education and care?
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4. Development versus behaviour
All children are individuals and learn develop at individual rates, however there are stages of skill development that typically occurs in expected patterns, such as crawling before walking, sitting before standing. Being aware of these typical patterns can educators to have appropriate and reasonable expectations of children. Focusing on challenging behaviour can sometimes overshadow the positive experiences and behaviours occurring throughout the day, and can often result in a particular behaviour being labelled as " challenging" when it is a behaviour that can be consistent with "typical child development". Provide a example of challenging behaviour that you have encounters in you work. Reflecting on some developmental expectations, how does an understanding of typical development assist you in understanding and responding to the behaviour you have described above?
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Personal Experiences -
Is this on track for the Personal Experiences one

The way I was disciplined in my childhood years was by both of my parents having strict rules in my home and out environment. If I didn’t share the toys with my sister/ friends, throw any object across the room or run outside and don’t wait for my parents, I would get disciplined and my parents would talk to me about what I have done wrong and I was sent to the couch for 10 minutes with a book if I was in my home environment and if I was on a outing with my parents they would explain to me what I have done wrong. By my parents discipline me when I was a child this has impacted on how I deal with the children’s behaviour in today’s society as the children need to learn from right and wrong and if the child doesn’t get discipline they won’t know what is the right or wrong behaviour.

Thank you I am still unsure about Development Versus Behaviour -
Is this asking me to chose a challenging Behaviour like throwing chairs at window, hitting edctuors ect and the strategy used to help the child to deal with it?

Okay thanks you

4. Development versus behaviour
All children are individuals and learn develop at individual rates, however there are stages of skill development that typically occurs in expected patterns, such as crawling before walking, sitting before standing. Being aware of these typical patterns can educators to have appropriate and reasonable expectations of children. Focusing on challenging behaviour can sometimes overshadow the positive experiences and behaviours occurring throughout the day, and can often result in a particular behaviour being labelled as " challenging" when it is a behaviour that can be consistent with "typical child development". Provide a example of challenging behaviour that you have encounters in you work. Reflecting on some developmental expectations, how does an understanding of typical development assist you in understanding and responding to the behaviour you have described above?

What I have so far, do I have to add anything else into it?
A challenging behaviour that has occurred in my workplace is a toddler throwing toys inside the room and in the outdoor area. By looking at the above challenging behavior this is not normal part of development for a toddler to be throwing toys inside the room and in the outdoor area. The strategies I have used to support this challenging behaviour is by telling the child it isn’t okay to throw toys because it may hit or hurt someone, when the child doesn’t through the toy praise their good behaviour, help and show the child on how to use the toys properly.