Exploring Wellness and Wellbeing of Early Childhood Education Settings

This essay delves into the critical aspects of wellness and wellbeing in early childhood education. It begins by defining wellness and wellbeing and highlights their significance in a child's development, emphasizing the role of role models and the impact of environmental factors on a child's emotional health. The paper then explores how mental wellbeing, encompassing psychological health and interpersonal interactions, affects a child's ability to function effectively. It also discusses physical wellbeing, including a child's physical attributes and their ability to learn and reason. Additionally, the essay examines stress as a significant factor negatively impacting the wellbeing of educators and children, and it emphasizes the importance of providing children with opportunities to develop their skills. The paper concludes by underscoring the need for vigilance in implementing childhood plans, promoting research, and creating policies that support wellness and wellbeing in educational settings.

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The wellness and wellbeing of early childhood
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Supporting the wellness and wellbeing of the early childhood
Introduction
Wellness and the prosperity are described as a condition in which a person is
comfortable, happy or healthy. Though, wellbeing is very vital and plays a role in the
individual’s coping with each other. No clear description used in defining a secured and
unsecured environment or whether the unsecured environment may assist in shaping the
emotional wellness of the children’s’ growth. Mostly the ability of the children to adopt the
context in which they are raised depend on their role models (Donatelle,2014). For instance,
children raised in an inharmonious condition by their parents, there is a high chance of such
children to follow their footsteps when they grow old. For example, working in school institution
with these kinds of kids can be a bit challenging. With this kind of kids, concentration might be
shallow due to lack of the confidence and self-esteem (Robbins, Powers, & Burgess,2009).
The children can also be very violent to other kids since to them, their background and
the environment does not promote self-esteem. Self-esteem is essential in every aspect of the
individual's life. Its attributes suggest that every individual has the control over his or her life.
For an individual, achieving their wellness and wellbeing enables them to meet their goals in life
(Liamputtong et al.2012). The primary objective of this particular paper is, therefore, to explore
some of the issues that could negatively impact the wellness and wellbeing of the educators in a
working place. Thus, the paper will focus on the mental, physical and stress as the issues that
negatively impact the individual’s development. These issues shall be used in creating a positive
change within the working school center.

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Mental wellbeing
The person psychological health significantly impacts their ability in carrying out their
duties effectively within the society despite him or her being a child, adult or an infant. The
mental health incorporates positive concepts that embrace personal experiences and the
interpersonal group's experience (McMurray & Clendon 2011). The psychological health,
therefore, portrays the ability of a person and the other individuals interacting effectively with
the working environment. It acts as an essential aspect of developing competence, happiness,
self-esteem and self-determination. As a person continues growing into the adulthood, their
mental health becomes the captious component that supports their ability to enrich their
potential.
Every child and the young individual is proud of proper learning, appropriate social and
family links. Though, there is a significant number of kids who experience mental health
problems (Henderson-Wilson,2012). Such issues are short-lived, and kid's mental wellbeing can
be improved with no interventions. Other kids experience more complicated and extreme
challenges which influence their capability of enjoying life and improper growth milestone. The
concept was established in the year 947. Since its establishment, the international health
organization decided to incorporate the issue in the health. The mental wellbeing was therefore
expressed as the state of social and physical health. The World health organization emphasizes
that physical, psychological and social purpose is never independent but a state of self and
environmental balance. Therefore, mental health enables the functional effectiveness of a person
and in the community. According to (Portsmouth, 2012) implies that wellbeing and wellness are
related to a state that sustains homeostasis.

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The school officials usually relate to mental with differences and disabilities. For
instance, many people living in Australia education sectors have adopted the category stated in
the national standards for the disability. These categories overwhelm, sensory, physical,
emotional and intellectuals. Therefore, understanding the mental wellbeing of the limitations by
the educators within the school significantly shape what can be rectified about the mental health
issue. Being an educator in Australia there in need to value the equity, compassion and the social
fairness (Hard, 2006). The feminist theory suggests a critics perspective concerning negative
attitudes towards beliefs of the disadvantaged groups. Hence all the educators should explore
ways for more self-assessment concerning methods of supporting kids with mental health
challenges. Thus, implying for proper interpretation and close interactions with kids from the
marginalized communities. The communication concept can also be applied as an interactive to
understand the attitudes and beliefs practiced by these communities (Minniss, Wardrope,
Johnston & Kendall, 2013).
The physical wellbeing
The physical wellbeing is a universal concept possessed by every child. It's the most
fundamental dimension considered as an attribute, capability and the conditions of the kids'
body. To attain more dimensions, kids should be able to achieve the physical health. Also, the
intellectual wellbeing can be described as child's ability of analysis, learning and reasoning that
is effectively used in every single day. An intellectual kid will be very successful in educating
matters and also able to analyses life conditions and discovery solutions to complicated
situations. Therefore, it's important for every educator to equip the children with these abilities.
The physical wellbeing facilitates the social fitness of the kids. The social competence pertains
the condition in which a child can interact effectively with the other children as well as the

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ability to cope with the existing social, environmental dynamics (Sorte, Daeschel & Amador
2011). Every child requires the physical wellbeing as the functional unit hence the Australian
sector of education staff has currently invested in educating the individuals to equip the society.
Physical wellbeing overwhelms the ability of a child ability in controlling and responding to the
appropriate emotions in life. The aspect is as well vital for the health of the kids since it
incorporates their confidence, feelings and the trust of the environment they are growing in.
Hence the physical fitness is necessary for improving the social state of the children, and that
means individuals must develop, guard and maintain it. As an educator within the education
sector of the Australian country, I should be able to acknowledge that proper physically cared kid
has attained holistic health and understand their responsibilities to the continued environment.
Therefore, am obliged to educate the children to make sure they have achieved unity within their
developmental environment (Robbins, Powers & Burgess 2009).
Stress
Stress is another issue that negatively affects the wellness and the wellbeing of the
educators in their working place. Stress is a terminology used in describing the responses, and
the demands experience every day in an individual's life. The burden is linked to the contrary and
positive events. Stress results from the agents known as stressors. These agents may be,
emotional, theoretical and physical. Childhood stress is prolonged, repetitive or severe due to
lack of the proper nurturing or the support from the parents or the caregivers. The kids who
experience stress during their early stages of life are at a high risk of long-term health that can
only be manifested adulthood. These health issues are a natural infection, mental disease and
inappropriate management of the stress. The side effects of the long-term health can also result in
depression. Therefore, assisting the children to learn will help in shutting down stress in their

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lives. There is a different way that can be used to achieve these goals. International procedures
like the psychology or the psychiatric could be critical (Van Slyke-Briggs, 2010).
Families' should, therefore, be educated on the various techniques for preventing the
stress. These procedures shall help in providing various opportunities for the kids to experience
distinguished feelings like happiness, peace and the interest of nature. At the very first of life,
kids are effective, curious and enthusiastic about the things that happen around them. This can be
achieved through the following method. Increasing the outdoor activities. With regards to
(Wlodkowski & Ginsberg,2017). outdoor activities have very many benefits. For instance,
widening the knowledge of their education and helping the children to live a very long life. The
other benefit is allowing the kids to in burning off the steams in which the educators suggest that
these activities facilitate proper growth in kids. More efforts are required since the kids appear to
have little involvement in the outdoor activities is diminishing. Children are obliged to care and
respect their perspectives towards their immediate environment. Parents and the educators should
corporate with the community to establish a link between the kids and their children. Effective
education should be the kid's oriented in offering opportunities for the children to begin making
sense of the things that surround them (Zinsser, Christensen & Torres, 2016).
Conclusion
The ability of the kids' care is a bit questionable by the education sectors. Despite every
success in implementations of the childhood plan. The department within the national
government that oversee these plans must be vigilant in ensuring these plans are being adhered
to. The research is necessary for establishing the guidelines to govern the education sectors.
Educators must have the ability to extend the knowledge to all the child's caregivers otherwise
the efforts in improving the proper development of the children will never work or have any

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impact on individuals within the society. The education sectors should apply their powers in
creating policies that offer kids with wellness and wellbeing. Educators should therefore focus in
improving children's' health problems.

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