I Know What I Like and Need … Do You? Providing Responsive Personal Care Routine for Infants and Toddlers in Group Car

1. I Know What I Like and Need … Do You?Providing Responsive Personal Care Routine for Infants and Toddlers in Group Care Jennifer Bradshaw, Infant Toddler Specialist Terry Hayes, Infant Toddler Specialist Southeast Regional Key

2. Agenda • I’m Hungry and I Know it! • Responsive Care • Personal Care Routines • Small Group Activity: Furniture for Routine Care • Role Play: What Are We Waiting for? • Vignette Reflection: I Know I Should… Individualize Care • Small Group Activity: Diaper Changing Procedures Evaluation

3. Objectives Participants will: • learn how to adapt to individual and developmental feeding, sleeping and toileting schedules while attending to recommended health and safety practices. • support the social emotional development of infants and toddlers in their care by providing responsive and individualized care.

4. Responsive Care In responsive care, the program: • Adapts to the child rather than vise versa • Provides different caregiving strategies for young infants, mobile infants and toddlers • Communicates to the child that she is important, that her needs will be met and that her choices, preferences and interest are respected

5. Supports the child’s ability to self-regulate • Follows each child’s unique rhythms and styles • Promotes each child’s sense of self and well being • Honors a child’s developmental abilities, needs, temperament, interest, home language, and the family’s cultural preferences

6. The Ages of Infancy Security Exploration Identity

7. Greeting & Departure • Arrival and departure times are important in building relationships with parents and the children.

8. Exchanging information at arrival and departure: • Individual Care Plan • Daily Report • Classroom Communication Log

9. Help Children cope with separation by: • Going slow- Do not rush a child who is having feelings about separation. • Making good bye a transition • Allowing a transition object (i.e. blanket or doll) • Knowing what to expect from different stages

10. Furniture for Routine Care Small Group Activity

11. Meals/Snacks: Important Guidelines to follow: • Children’s allergies and food exclusions are posted • Bottles are labeled and dated • Solids served from a spoon • Children are held or seated while eating/drinking • Teachers sit with children while they are eating • Infant are fed on demand

12. Role Play: What are we waiting for?

13. Foods that Pose Choking Risks: • Nuts and Raisins • Peanut Butter and Marshmallows • Chips and Popcorn • Whole Hot Dogs, Cherry Tomatoes and Grapes • Large Chunks of Meat • Hard Candy and Chewing Gum • Raw Vegetables

14. Provisions for Relaxation and Comfort

15. Spaces to Grow • Video Clip

16. Vignette Reflection:I Know I Should…Individualize Routines How can I meet the napping needs of individual children? What Should I do when a child’s schedule is different from the schedule of most children in the group? How do individual routines benefit children?

17. Diapering/Toiletting Small Group Activity: Diaper Changing Procedure

18. Health & Safety Practices • Health & Safety Checklist • Hand washing • Cleaning and sanitizing the classroom and materials

19. Comments/Evaluations Terry Hayes thayes@phmc.org Jennifer Bradshaw jbradshaw@phmc.org