CRECHE- Nurturing habits that at a tender age

 

Nurturing habits that at a tender age

A child is either asleep or is learning something. We often believe that learning is a conscious effort that happens only when we teach, but that isn’t the case with children; instead they learn the most when we aren’t teaching them at all. Their learning is mostly based on their observations and often they imitate us in speech or postures. It is therefore important for us to behave ourselves, rather than yelling at a child and asking them to behave. Parenting is, without a doubt, a challenging task as they have to set the standard for themselves for the child to observe and learn, but this is also an opportunity to inculcate good habits among children because any leaning from the tender age stays as a habit for the rest of their life.

At our Ama Kalika Kendra in Sundargarh, we believe in learning through observation, therefore we have trained our creche worker to create a learning environment at every creche for the children to learn. To do so, we ensure that all our creche workers are wearing clean clothes and maintain good hygiene themselves. It is also restricted for strangers to visit the creche for any purpose whatsoever and maintain a disciplined schedule for lunch, leisure and playing. Apart from that we also appreciate those children who wasted no food or are wearing clean clothes as a positive reinforcement for him/her and for others. Our creche worker also carries out activities like cleaning the premises or keeping books and toys on selves along with children for them to observe and learn. Our workers also maintain a constant  person to person communication on a daily basis, our creche worker greet each child and ask every child to do so among themselves, we also take children to nearby Anganwadi  under our supervision and make them  greet and interact with other children.  It is also observed that visual stimulation are the strongest of all, To ensure that, we play small videos and documentary for children to learn healthy practices like, washing their hands,  not wasting food and balance diet to leave a long lasting impression on each child. We believe that at a tender age, we can’t teach the children but instead, can create an environment where each child spontaneously learns.