Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Updated Directory of Early Childhood Teacher Preparation Programs
The Council For Professional Recognition (the organization that oversee's CDA Crendentialing) has updated its list of early childhood teacher preparation programs. This is the link to the prefacing page giving directions on how to use the directory. The directory link is located further down the page.
Day Care Bans "Terrible Twos" Term
The "terrible twos" defines one experience of raising a toddler (Spock, 2003). For many parents, toddlers work them hard. They must deal with defiance and angry. They stay up at night finding a solution to temper tantrums. Parents are at wits end. There is a simple solution: changing one's perspective. It begins with this term.
Smarter Toddler and Preschool Day Care has taken a proper step. Society's attitudes embody themselves in the labels it uses. One hundred years ago, calling an African-American a "negro", "Nigra", "Nigger", or "colored" was pedestrian. Like yearly colds, it was a typical part of life. As a result, African-Americans were conciously and unconciously seen as inferior to Caucasian-Americans. Around the 1950's, of course, these terms sloooooooooowly began to fall out of favor. Even though today they are used, they have been supplanted by more honorable terms. This change in vernacular has also changed the perception of African-Americans. They are mostly now seen as people loved just like everyone else with the same wonderful, blessed superlatives. The same metamorphosis is needed with toddlers.
"Terrible twos" invites stigma, inferiority, and negativity. It forms an unfavorable attitude toward raising a toddler as a time to dread. By dropping the term, though, we can make this window of child-rearing a nurturing, vilifying experince. To do this, we must put our foot down just like African-Americans did about being called niggers. The use of disrespectful terms should be strongly censured when possible. In the public sphere, it depends on the fellowship of people; however, private spheres can do as they wish.
If I owned a child care center, I would censure the "terrible two" term as a ground rule for the employment culture deserving reprimand with the same severity as calling anyone a prejudicial or derogatory term.
Smarter Toddler and Preschool Day Care has taken a proper step. Society's attitudes embody themselves in the labels it uses. One hundred years ago, calling an African-American a "negro", "Nigra", "Nigger", or "colored" was pedestrian. Like yearly colds, it was a typical part of life. As a result, African-Americans were conciously and unconciously seen as inferior to Caucasian-Americans. Around the 1950's, of course, these terms sloooooooooowly began to fall out of favor. Even though today they are used, they have been supplanted by more honorable terms. This change in vernacular has also changed the perception of African-Americans. They are mostly now seen as people loved just like everyone else with the same wonderful, blessed superlatives. The same metamorphosis is needed with toddlers.
"Terrible twos" invites stigma, inferiority, and negativity. It forms an unfavorable attitude toward raising a toddler as a time to dread. By dropping the term, though, we can make this window of child-rearing a nurturing, vilifying experince. To do this, we must put our foot down just like African-Americans did about being called niggers. The use of disrespectful terms should be strongly censured when possible. In the public sphere, it depends on the fellowship of people; however, private spheres can do as they wish.
If I owned a child care center, I would censure the "terrible two" term as a ground rule for the employment culture deserving reprimand with the same severity as calling anyone a prejudicial or derogatory term.
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