Develop Positive and Respectful Relationships with Children

This article provides tips on how to develop positive and respectful relationships with children. It covers topics such as creating a relaxed mealtime, role modeling positive interactions, encouraging sharing of ideas, comforting distressed children, guiding behavior, involving children in developing limits, acknowledging positive choices, and respecting differences.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
1. How can you create a relaxed and unhurried mealtime? What discussions can be had with
children during mealtimes?..........................................................................................................3
2. How can role model positive interactions with others?...........................................................3
3. Describe three ways that can encourage children to share their ideas and stories-.................4
4. What strategies can be adopted when comforting children who cry or show signs of
distress?........................................................................................................................................4
5. How can you ensure that you consistently respond positively to all children who require
attention?......................................................................................................................................5
6. What are some techniques that can used to guide children’s behaviour?................................5
7. How can involve children in developing limits and consequences for inappropriate
behaviours?..................................................................................................................................6
8. How can you acknowledge children’s efforts when they make positive choices in managing
their own behaviour?....................................................................................................................6
9. List some ways that can demonstrate active listening-............................................................7
10. Identify and interpret at least five non-verbal cues of children-............................................7
11. Describe at least three verbal and three non-verbal communication techniques-..................7
12. How to encourage children to respect each other’s similarities and differences?.................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

MAIN BODY
1. How can you create a relaxed and unhurried mealtime? What discussions can be had with
children during mealtimes?
The children must be relaxed while making them eat the food. This is the stage at which the
children learn the eating habits. The care providers of the child can help the child by making
them learn by setting the relaxed as well as the unhurried mealtime for the children (Stacey,
2018). The care providers can use the following tips while creating the enjoyable environment
rather than the hurried mealtime such as-
 They must sit with the children during the meals as this encourages the appropriate
behaviour and enables them to learn the healthy eating habits.
 Making the mealtime a highlight of the overall day by having the fun and conversation
with the children, talking about their family and doing all those interesting things which
will have relaxed mealtime.
 They must provide children the proper duration of the mealtime as this will make them
satisfied in eating the meal.
The care providers can discuss all the interesting incidents, stories as well as the activities which
will help them to make the unhurried and relaxed mealtime.
2. How can role model positive interactions with others-
Educators or the care providers play the role model in the positive interactions like empathy as
well as the respect for the children, co-educators, staff and the families. The educators must
ensure that they acknowledge each child of the student in the positive ways. Supporting the
children by reflecting the lives of the children will help them to create the positive as well as the
respectful environment (Harris, 2020).
The educators must show genuine interest in the in effectively understanding the children and
respecting all of them. Each child has its own ability and knowledge, the educator must ensure
about this, and they must positively respect each child. They must regularly guide the behaviour
of the children in the right direction that they stay focused towards developing their skills and
learning new things. The educator communicating effectively will help them to positively
respond towards any problem related to the children. The educators having the positive

interactions is very important for the children and by using these, it will help in creating the
respectful and positively interacting with the children.
3. Describe three ways that can encourage children to share their ideas and stories-
It is very important to open the mind of the children as this will help them to make and keep the
friends and can negotiate and cope with the disappointments (Tracy, 2019). The educators can
encourage the students in sharing the ideas and the stories by using the following tips-
 Helping the children to understand the importance of sharing the ideas and stories as this
will encourage them to share the things.
 Using the language which will be much easy for the children to understand as well as
using the fiction and non-fiction books.
 Using the oral story telling as well as reading the stories from the books will encourage
them to share their stories.
 Exposing the children to the wider range of the language to open their minds for
communicating with others.
 Let the children explore their interests as this will help them to choose the things of their
likings and understanding.
4. What strategies can be adopted when comforting children who cry or show signs of distress-
There may happen that the children feel low and start crying by showing the sign of distress. The
educators can use many ways or the tips to make them comfort and stop them for crying. The
tips can be such as-
 The educator must ensure that they are supporting the child to explore its feelings as well
as motivating them for improving the situation (Sciaraffa, Zeanah and Zeanah, 2018).
 Using the better communication skills will help the children to feel safe and comfortable
and may feel fresh.
 They must aware the children by maintaining the better relationships with the friends as
this will help them to be comfortable with the other children and may share the problems
with them.
 They must talk with the child and listen to their problems actively as this will help them
in sharing their feelings.
 Acknowledging the emotions of the children will help them in feeling better as well as by
this offering them solution for the problem.

5. How can you ensure that you consistently respond positively to all children who require
attention-
Providing the individual attention on every child is very important. The educators must consider
and respond to the children positively by paying proper attention. The educators paying attention
towards the children will create the positive environment. Proving the facial gestures to the
students helps in paying the attention towards each and every child, pays attention and actively
listen while any children talks, respecting the interests of each child. These all enables to pay the
effective attention towards the students.
This creates the positive learning environment and the children also learn the things effectively.
The educators paying the attention towards the children helps them in understanding each child
and respecting them as well. Positive attention helps the children feel much secure and valued by
the educators. This also necessary for the development of the child as paying attention on their
activities will help them in improvements (Dweck and Goetz, 2018).
6. What are some techniques that can used to guide children’s behaviour-
The educators play the vital role in guiding as well as directing the children for their behaviour.
The children quickly learn how they should behave when the educators provide consistent and
the positive guidance from them. There are several tips which will help the educator in
promoting the good behaviour in the children-
 Being a role model will help the children in getting the proper guidance from the
educator. As the children learns how the educators behave.
 When the child is behaving better than they should be provided the appreciation which
will encourage other children as well (Ellis, 2021).
 Preparing the children how to behave in the challenging situations as this will help them
in understand how to behave in these situations.
 Encouraging the children and providing them the positive behaviour for the appropriate
attitude with the other children.
 Telling them when they should respond and when they should not respond according to
the situation.

7. How can involve children in developing limits and consequences for inappropriate
behaviours-
The educators must ensure about telling the children for the consequences of not behaving
properly. This can be done by them in many ways such as when the educator supports the
children to learn in managing the behaviour according to the situations as this time they also
must tell about the limits and the consequences for their inappropriate behaviours. Talking with
the children in the positive way on what should they do. This helps the children to know which
behaviour is appropriate and which is not (Bell and Harper, 2020). Role modelling by
maintaining the effective communication with the children will help the educator in observing
the behaviour of the students as well as improving them.
Providing the simple and easy explanations for the limits as they will know the reason for not
doing so, setting the clear limits which will help them to have the clarity of the limits. The
educator must focus on the behaviour of the children for maintaining the good behaviour.
8. How can you acknowledge children’s efforts when they make positive choices in managing
their own behaviour-
The educators must appreciate the children efforts and the hard work which they are giving for
the managing the good behaviour. This will help them to improve more in choosing the positive
behaviour (Whitelock and Ensaff, 2018). The best way to acknowledge the efforts is praising and
encouraging them and this can be done in following ways such as-
 When the child is putting efforts for the good behaviour, the educator can give the
positive feedbacks and appreciate them for their hard work.
 The non-verbal ways can also be used such as thumbs up, smile, high five as this will be
considered as the most effective way for showing the positive impression for their work.
 The children may be given the surprise for their good and the positive behaviour.
 The children can be praised for their little effort or the improvements as well because this
will help them in encouraging for their work, and they will do better.
 They should that the child must be felt exited for their own interests and this develops the
sense of pride and the self-confidence.
 The praise should be according to their efforts as making exaggerations in the praise will
not be believed by the child.

9. List some ways that can demonstrate active listening-
Active listening is one of the most important skills that the educator must have. The tips which
will help in becoming more effective listener are such as-
 Paying attention is the key point which reflects that the educator is listening. This can be
done by having the facial gestures of what the children are speaking.
 The educators must use the body language and the gestures which is showing that he is
engaged in the conversation. They must nod head whenever require and the smiling as
well (DeVito, 2019).
 Giving the solution to the problem is the best sign that the educator is listening to the
problem of the student. When the children get the positive response on this then they feel
more secure.
 Responding in the conversation wherever required as this will help in understanding the
problem and by this the children will also feel that the educator is effectively listening to
their problem.
10. Identify and interpret at least five non-verbal cues of children-
Non verbal cues are the signs or the signals which the children use to communicate with each
other without using the language while conversation. This sometimes takes the place of the
language such as the gestures. This is basically the conversation which is done without using the
spoken words (Ahmed, 2020).
There are several non-verbal cues of the children such as-
 The body movement is how the individual carry themselves tells the children enough
about how they are feeling for the situation. The movements provide the strong indication
of how the individual is feeling such as the nervousness, excitement as well as anxiety.
 Physical touch is the non-verbal communication that really helps in communicating with
the children as by this they will much secure, loved as well as safe. The physical touch
helps in providing the messages to the feelings or the intentions such as the crying and
many more.
 Maintaining the eye contact with the children when they are speaking something helps
then feels that we are engaged in listening for what they are saying. Maintaining eye
contact with the child helps them in understanding them as whether they are feeling
hungry, feeling tired and many more.

 Facial expressions will provide the lot of effectiveness in showing them that we are
listening to them. This includes nodding the head, smiling and many more. The facial
experssions of the individual or the child helps them in understanding the excitement,
surprising, shock as this can be seen by the opening of mouth as well as the eyes.
 There it should be understanding of the space as the non-verbal communication methods
as this plays the vital role in developing the child.
11. Describe at least three verbal and three non-verbal communication techniques-
Verbal communication is the process in which the conversation is done by using the spoken
words for exchanging the ideas thoughts as well as the emotions with each other (Ntshuntshe,
Gqeba and Gqeba, 2020).
Three verbal communication techniques are-
 Active listening
 Speaking clearly
 Asking the questions and for the clarification
Non verbal communication involves not using the spoken words while conversation each other.
Three non-verbal communication techniques are-
 Facial expression
 Eye contact
 Space
12. How to encourage children to respect each other’s similarities and differences-
The educator must ensure teaching the children for respecting the similarities as well as the
differences among the children's. There are many ways which will help the educator to
encourage these are such as-
 Discussing the respect will help the children to learn what is respect and why it is
important to be given to all.
 Teaching the students that they must consider and value all the culture and the beliefs of
the other children as everyone belongs to their own culture.
 Praising the respectful behaviour of the children as this will help them in improving more
and maintaining this good behaviour (Alhabeeb and Rowley, 2018).

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