Assignment: CHCECE005 - Strategies for Baby and Toddler Care

This assignment solution for CHCECE005 delves into the multifaceted aspects of providing care for babies and toddlers. It explores strategies educators can use to encourage children's participation in activities, build healthy attachments, and create secure relationships. The solution analyzes various educator practices, evaluating their impact on building respectful and trusting relationships. It also addresses the National Quality Standard (NQS) element 2.1.2, focusing on children's comfort, sleep, rest, and relaxation. Furthermore, the assignment outlines good practices for rest and sleep routines, including environmental considerations, hygiene, and recognizing signs of tiredness. Finally, it covers safe sleeping practices, including SIDS prevention, and identifying physical indicators of tiredness in children.

CHCECE005 Provide care for babies and
toddlers

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b. List three strategies that Educators can use to encourage children to join in an activity or
experience in a relaxed manner.
The educators must recommend various strategies as well as must implement various strategies
so that they can encourage the participation of the children in various activities. Active
participation of the children in different activities are crucial as with the help of this the

development of the children can be ensured. Various strategies that are used by the children
include the following:
 Gather a group: The participation of the children can be encouraged in groups as they
feel motivated when they others playing and enjoying. Children do not make moves
unless they see other doing the same things and if the children is follower then they must
be grouped with others so that they can find activities interest and relaxing for them.
 Get to the root: The educators must analyse the interest of the children and must
accordingly be placed in the group or engaged in the activities. This can be done by
uncovering their interest by discussing with the children and understanding their concern.
Understanding of the root cause enables the educators in determining the ways to ensure
the participation of the kids.
 Pair up siblings: Children are generally comfortable with their siblings as they spend
most of their time with them. The pairing of the children must be done with their siblings
so that they can more comfortably enjoy the activities they are participating into.
c. Give three examples of how Educators can build healthy and secure attachments and
relationships with the infants/toddlers in their care?
The toddlers and infants must be treated with care by taking into consideration various strategies
and actions by the educators. The impact of such actions is that it makes the child feel more
secure and safe as well as attached to them due to which they can efficiently make them
understand the importance of various aspects. For example:
 Watch and listen to the baby: With this the educators can analyse the activities of the
babies and accordingly they can identify the feelings, mental state, their expectations etc.
This will further enable the baby to share every aspect with them which will make them
feel safe and secure.
 Hold and cuddle the baby: Touch with the child can make them feel safe as it assures
them they have somebody whom they can trust and share their emotions. It will make
them feel relaxed and calm because of the physical touch which ensures safety in the
relationship.
 Make eye contact with them: This will enable them observe the facial expression of the
baby due to which their joy and sadness can be analysed. It will further make the child
feel that they are safe and have healthy relation with the educators because just by their
facial expression their problems are analysed by them.

3. Read each Educator practice and complete the following table.
i. Indicate whether or not the practice helps to build a respectful and trusting
relationship with infants and toddlers.
ii. Provide a reason for your response.
Think about quality care practices such as:
 Continuity of care.
 Respect for children and families.
 Acknowledgement of diversity.
 Promoting self-regulation and empathy.
 Toddlers are hands-on learners.
 Recognising individual needs/differences.
 Importance of quality interactions.
Practice Supportive
?
Reason
Yes No
Educators rotate from the
infant/toddler rooms to the
preschool rooms every 4 – 6
months.
✓  Yes rotation of the educators from
infant room to the preschool
rooms supports better trust and
respect for each other as with the
help of this they can understand
the perspectives of each other.
With the help of this the
principles of recognising
individual needs/differences of
the quality care practices can
easily be taken into consideration
along with the continuity of care
must also be considered.

All 15 toddlers are required to sit
and listen quietly to the Educator
read stories for around 20 minutes.
✓  No the sitting of the toddlers and
reading in front of them will not help
them in building any trust and respect
relationship. But this will ensure that
the hand-on learning of the toddlers
is managed with care as this will lead
to their development.
Educators always try to assist
toddlers to see the consequences of
their actions in a respectful manner.
E.g. Look at Callie, she’s crying.
Can you give her a hug?
✓  Yes the guidance of the educators
to the toddlers will enable them to
understand the implication of their
actions on the growth as well as this
will also develop better relations
among them such as in example
when the baby will cry hug will
make them ensure that they have
someone to provide support.
Every child has their own space to
put their personal belongings.
✓  No this will not support in
developing better relation among
them as with this the ability of the
toddler will be enhanced for
managing their own belongings and
keeping it safely. With this the
promotion of self regulation and
empathy principle will be considered
as they will learn personal
management rather than better
relations with educators.

Educators use threats to gain
toddlers cooperation. If you don’t
pick up those blocks you can’t go
outside!
✓
 No the threat which will be
exerted by the educators on the
toddlers and infant to cooperate with
them may adversely affect their
understanding for each other because
with this they may influence the
respect for the children and their
families. Along with this it will make
the infant/toddlers incalculable of
sharing their issues as they are forced
and threatened top work according to
them.
Educators require all
infants/toddlers to follow the same
sleep routine.
✓  This will also not contribute to
better relation with them as with the
help of this the educators cannot
make the children have same sleep
routine as the sleep order of the
children may vary each other. The
acknowledgement of the diversity as
part of quality care practice has to be
taken into consideration as with this
it can be ensured that the children
taste are taken into consideration.

Educator focuses most of their time
on writing programs and
documenting observations, and
spends little time interacting with
infants/toddlers.
✓
 Yes this will enable them in
efficiently enhancing the
capability of interacting with the
child. Due to this the all the issues
that are faced by the child can be
taken into consideration. This will
make them comfortable with each
other due to which they can
ensure effective interaction is
ensured.
4. To complete this task refer to the following reading: Guide to the National Quality Standard, ACECQA (2011).
 See pp.56-58 NQS 2.1.2 Each child’s comfort is provided for and there are
appropriate opportunities to meet each child’s need for sleep, rest and relaxation.
What does Element 2.1.2 of the NQS aim to achieve? (approx. 30 words)
The aim of this element is to ensure the comfort of the children and their welfare in
context of their daily routine activities such as sleep, dressing, toiletry, nappy changing etc. For
this various requirements of different families and their preferences are considered. With the help
of this element various aspects that affect the daily routine requirement of the children are
identified such as individual background of the families of the children, the personal preferences
of the familiars and taste of the parents etc. The holistic approaches which are used to identify
the connectedness of the mind, body and spirit are recognised. To make sure that the benefit is
provided to each and every need so that active and restful experiences throughout the day and
support to the children is offered.
5. List three ways in which Educators can demonstrate good practice in relation to rest and
sleep routines?
The educators need to take into consideration various aspects which are related to good sleep of
the children. They recommend various practices which must be taken into consideration by the
parents so that babies can have comfortable sleep. Some of such practices include the following:
 Environment for sleep: The environment which is provided to the children for ensuring
the better sleep includes various aspects such as soft natural light ion the room, the
temperature of the room must not be too hot or too cold, enough time must be offered to

the baby for their smoothing activities as they get get in their comfort zone to have better
sleep. In addition to this the clothes of the children must be comfortable such as they
must be of lose fitting with soft cotton fabric so that they can feel relaxed.
 Hygiene practices: The educators must ensure hygiene of the baby while they are
sleeping because it makes them feel free while they are sleeping. To ensure this the body
of the child must be cleaned and moisturiser must be applied so that they feel fresh and
happy.
 Cues and signs of tiredness: When the children start rubbing their eyes, start crying,
rubbing their heads, pulling ears etc. it is a sign that they are tired and want to sleep. The
educators respond to the children promptly and this make the child have a belief that their
needs are analysed which enhances their trust on them.
6. List 5 physical indicators that a child may display that shows they are tired and in need
of sleep and rest?
The signs of the tiredness and need of sleep may vary among children at different ages such as
the signs of tiredness among the newborn, older babies and toddlers are differentiated. Five signs
that are provided by the children which reflects they are tired and must be provided sleep
includes the following:
 Crying or grizzling of the children
 Yawning, pulling ears and making jerky arms
 Rubbing eyes
 Sucking of the fingers
 Frowning and looking worried
7.a. The SIDS and Kids Safe Sleeping program teaches parents and Educators how to
create a safe sleeping environment for babies and young children.
What are the six ways to sleep babies safely?
The parents has to take into consideration the better sleep of the baby as with the help of this
they can ensure better health of the baby. For better sleep better environment is to be created by
them for the kids with the following ways:

i. To ensure the safety of the baby they must be kept on the back as the babies are more
likely to meet with various sleeping accidents and SIDS which leads to their death.
Especially when the baby starts rolling over they must be kept on the back while sleeping
because at this stage the chances of various such accidents increases.
ii. Babies must be low down within the cot and their legs must be near the bottom end as
with this it can be ensured that head is not covered while they are sleeping but their rest
of the body is covered with bad sheet. In addition to this they must be kept in the safe
infant sleeping bag rather than any blanket as they can move out of it and can uncover
themselves.
iii. Smoking must be avoided as it can lead to fatal incidents and increase the risk of the
SIDS among the babies. This directly affects the heath of the baby in context of their
sleep cycle due to which their brain development gets severely affected.
iv. The room in which is sleeping must be shared for the first year of their life but they must
be covered within the cot rather than in the same blanket used by the parents. Also the
shifting of the bedding of the baby must be avoided as this can make them feel
uncomfortable due to which there may get disturbed.
v. Brest feeding has the ability to reduce the risk of the SUDI including SIDS as well as
fatal sleeping accidents due to which the mothers are recommended to feed their babies
for at least first year and continue if possible.
vi. The cots in which the babies are to be kept must be approved by the Australian safety
standards as this will ensure the comfort and the chances of any harm reduce. It can be
ensured with the label AS/NZS 2172 for cots and AS/NZS 2195 for portable cots.
b. You need to provide a safe sleeping environment night and day. Give 4 examples of how
to sleep babies safely and give an example for each?
While ensuring safe sleeping environment for the baby the parents has to take into consideration
the impact of various aspects with examples such as:
 The toys and pillows must be kept away from the babies as it may create the risk of
suffocation for them and this can affect their sleep.
 When the baby shows the symptoms of tiredness they must be shifted to comfortable
place for example they must not be left unsupervised in the pram, bouncinette etc.
 Safe bedding must be provided for example soft surface and the bulky bedding for the
baby can increase risk of SID due to which standardised cots must be ensured.