Build confidence at an early age

When entrusting their young children to other settings, parents like to know the children feel happy, secure and confident. One way of ensuring this is for parents to provide them with all of the necessary materials to enable them to operate in an independent and confident manner.    

In childcare centres, personal belongings such as hats, sheets and lunches become very important because familiar routines are based on these items. For example, all children find their hats before going out onto the playground. All children help to make their beds before rest lime. At lunchtime, children either select their lunch box from the refrigerator or find their lunch box set out on the table. Even the youngest children have a sense of achievement when they can identify their own sheets, hat or lunch box.  

Parents who ensure their children have all the necessary items, and can recognize those items, are encouraging the children to develop independence. It is delightful to note the grown-up demeanour of these children at routine times. The need for substitute belongings or “spares,” which can otherwise cause distress in little ones, is so easily avoided.

As adults, we do not like to be caught in a position of not having the items or information we need to be able to acquit ourselves well in any situation. We especially feel uncomfortable if this occurs in the presence of others. So too do Young children, and they are dependent on us for the items to ensure their chances of success. Think about it.

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