Peters – early childhood educators

Best words of wisdom for early childhood development, I think it is to facilitate, to optimize the development of the child. It is critical that the child have ample opportunities to try new things, to learn new things, but in a shielded and protected environment, but to try new things and be encouraged and supported and reinforced. I think parents need to learn more positive ways of dealing with their children, more positive ways of disciplining their children, more positive ways of building their strengths. Children are so incredibly curious and are so incredibly active and open to new experiences and it’s really up to us not just as parents but as early childhood educators to provide them with those environments in which they can succeed. Every once and a while they’ll fail of course, but nothing breeds success like success and all the talk about developing self-esteem can most effectively be done by allowing the child to really experience success many times during the course of his or her day.