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Helping Families Belong
April 9, 2013
Children are the best audience: they are curious, enthusiastic, impulsive, generous, and pleased by simple joys. They laugh easily at the ridiculous and are willing to believe the absurd. Children are not ironic, disillusioned, or indifferent, but hopeful, open-minded, and open-hearted, with a voracious hunger for pictures and stories.
-Eric Rohmann
-Eric Rohmann
- Do you have a system for matching incoming families with ‘buddy families’ for play dates before school begins?
- At program open houses, are there plenty of teachers and parents with smiles, handshakes, and greetings?
- When you host visitors, is their presence announced on your morning message board?
- Do you let current families know who is coming, so they will be prepared to introduce themselves?
"When you orient new families, do you focus on things you want them to do: finish the paperwork, send extra clothes, sign in and out? Or do you use this opportunity to launch the profound work of seeing that child and family with clarity and appreciation?
"This is the time to ask families about their hopes and dreams, their challenges and vulnerabilities, their fierce beliefs and their deep questions. You are setting the tone for a new relationship of meaningful collaboration."
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Displaying 1 CommentDaycare In Demand
Portsmouth, NH, United States
This is a great piece--it's best to look at "new families" as becoming part of *your* family at the center. Then it's easy to focus on ways to make them feel welcomed and integrated rather than viewing them as another administrative chore.
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