#Childcare Development

[firm-foundation-childcare]

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[krishana1798]

Embracing Child Mental Health: Welcome to UTAGE Child Development Centre!

Welcome to UTAGE Child Development Centre, a nurturing haven for children's mental health and holistic growth. We are thrilled to embark...

[kinderpassblog]

The Benefits of Breastfeeding for Mother and Child

There is certainly a deluge of information if you have been considering not nursing your newborn. Although it is a personal choice that only you may make, there are countless advantages. So, let's delve into the marvelous world of breastfeeding and uncover the wonders it holds for your child's development and your own well-being.

Breastfeeding is like having a secret superpower that fuels your baby's growth, strengthens their immune system, and enhances their brain development. And let's not forget about the incredible benefits it brings to you, from aiding in your recovery to creating an unbreakable emotional bond with your little sidekick.

So, embrace the power of breastfeeding and give your baby the best start in life! 

Remember, you're not alone on this heroic journey. The Kindersteps Parenting App is here to support you every step of the way, providing a wealth of resources tailored to your child's developmental stages.

[adarssuggestionbox]

what is Uruk childcare?

Adar- @palatablepain I am thrilled you are interested in the future! *I personally think of children as our future* Perhaps you ask because you are considering the idea of adopting an uruk child? Whatever your reason for asking may be, I'm very pleased to educate you on the most important things. I consider myself the first expert on this matter.

The first thing one ought to know is that depending on the uruk, one can live regularly about 50 years. This is a life span that might be average but it is usually not due to natural causes. My children have endured much strife and have died young either by force or by accident due to living situations. This is quickly changing. When able to grow properly they can have the potential to live for a very long time due to the left overs of our elvish heritage.

While my children may not have the capacity to live quite as long as me, they age slowly compared to most. As sad as it is we were bred for terrible things that require a strong youthful body in order to endure hard physical labor. I simply am the exception as I am one of the first to have gone through the transformation.

*My heart aches as I speak.... but I'm able to tap that down quickly in order to continue*

birth to 3 years of age in human equivalency

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Children are born in sets of 2 to 3. It is rare that children are born without siblings. This is due to our origins. We were bred to work as I mentioned before. So uruk women were built to produce more offspring to complete labor...

But I will not focus on that, as it is a very heart sinking thought. *I pause to gather myself*

Instead, I shall use my son Glûg as an example! *My frown soon brightens as I motion to my son who stands by my side*

Glûg- ...... *He stares dead pan and unimpressed with my antics but it goes completely over my head.* 🤦‍♂️🙄😒🫤😐😑

-Really... Must he drag me into these discussions...- *He thinks to himself*

Adar- As I was saying, When my son was born we made sure he attached to his mother like any other babe. As one ought to already know breastfeeding is essential.

Glûg- *he is already speeding away in the opposite direction of us the moment I mention how we kept him breastfed.*

Adar- during these years we carry them with us everywhere. Primarily on our backs. Due to certain conditions we have endured in the past the safest place a baby could be was physically on one person. This was key to the little one's survival. It has permanently been ingrained in us to constantly monitor the youngest ones amongst us as they are easy targets of danger.

We also are quite communal. We all are looking after each other's children. I said before that children are our future, so we must look after them together to ensure our survival as a race too. I also value the young generation greatly. Children are a gift and must be treated as such. In this current age I have tried my hardest to instill this mentality with all my adult children as much as I possibly can.

Parental responsibilities include pûring to soothe the baby, and grooming. Uruk have barbed tongues much like large cats. So we often groom childrens hair this way. This development was made due to our lack of accessible hygiene resources in the early days. We were built to self clean.

Ages 4 to 6

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This age range is my favorite. Young uruk children at this age are wild and rambunctious! They like to run and get into loads of trouble like all children do. They are rowdy like warg cubs and often like to play fight with claws and teeth. Glûg in particular liked to curl up in a ball then roll around in a tussle with his brothers and sisters. *I begin to chuckle.*

This is also the age range that uruk children start eating other foods beyond breast milk. I personally think it is a great idea to mix other foods and continue breastfeeding during this age range. Though Glûg was very fussy about eating things beyond breast milk. That boy is still picky. *I sigh rubbing my temples*

Children are still carried on parents backs to this age. Adults continue to heavily monitor children in this age range as well. Grooming is also still a big parental responsibility. Uruk children often do not start to develop proper speech until age 7 due to our mixed animal-like genes.

So it is up to parents and adults to teach children how to communicate via pûrring, trîlling, hissing, growling, grunting, and snorting. Each sound can mean something different depending on the context. I might also add it was safer to communicate non-verbally in the early days due to our environment. This has been passed down through every generation that it has become apart of our genes and culture permanently.

A child's first trîl and pûr are a kin to their first words and is something we get extremely excited about.

I remember Glûg's first pûr *a jolly look draws up on my face* He was sitting by the sand pit in our camp, scribbling in it with sticks. Then suddenly a little lizard scurried up his arm, then sat up on his shoulder and flipped its tongue against his cheek. It made him so happy he began pûrring.

My newest son @koyaildoesstuff , has learned to trîl recently too! It happened due to a lovely family bonding moment between him, Glûg, and I. We helped each other through something rough that day. I won't forget the feeling in my heart when I hear his first trîl. The little one tried so hard to pûr but it came out as a trîl. But it made me happy all the same that Glûg and I could make an impact on his life.

*I smile waving my hand* But I digress, I'm becoming distracted. *I chuckle again*

Where was I.... *I pause to think* Oh yes!

Ages 7 to 9

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this is the age range that speech is learned. Children pick it up at different speeds. Glûg was pretty young for an uruk when he started to pickup language skills. Then again I kept him in my sight and constantly worked with him every moment I had. When his mother passed away, I gladly took him under my personal care.

Teaching him vocabulary of both Black speech and common was surprisingly easy. Though this is usually not the case for other uruk children. They typically need lots of consistent help and structure to learn speech. However, things relating to math and science is something most of my little ones seem to grasp quite early on in this age range. Memory for them is also sharp.

Adults are responsible for teaching them nature survival skills at this age. During the summer in particular children help prepare for winter. Adults help guide the children by getting them involved in community processes like basket weaving for winter storage and they also are taught how to forage. Overall they are encouraged to be helpful hands to those around them. We are a communal culture. We survive by helping each other. Children must learn this at a young age.

In fact we are teaching our children these concepts at this moment in Mordor! That is why my posts have gone slow as of late. There is much to be done during the summer season.

Ages 10 to 15

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Speech is usually fully developed by this time and children have a lot more responsibility. They are often charged with helping to look after the little ones and given more complex tasks in the community.

Parental responsibilities do not change too much either. We still help groom them, teach them our ways and emphasize community engagement.

Ages 16 to 19

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This is the age range that we consider young adulthood. By now they should have a healthy basis of how life works. They also are expected to fully participate alongside the adults in the community.

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I think this covers most of the basics about uruk child care and child development. I personally believe it is very hard to talk about one of those subjects without mentioning the other. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions about raising an uruk child. I'd be happy to answer any questions you pose!

[neurodivergent-loverboy]

Solidarity with antiwork folks but I do dream of labor tbh. I just dream of, y'know, unexploited labor. I dream of a livable wage and sustainable hours for the important and fulfilling labor that I do. And I don't think anyone should be forced to work, but I do kinda think that most people would choose to provide some form of labor to their community if it wasn't under duress. It's just a lot harder to imagine that kind of reality if you've only ever experienced profit-driven jobs in which you're alienated from the product of your labor. Then again part of the reason I would want to work no matter what is that my specific flavor of neuroticism makes me wilt like a neglected plant when I don't have any external bounds on my time, so to some extent maybe I am just some kinda freak

[babyspacebatclone]

Small rant from a daycare teacher:

It’s important and healthy to teach children they can be told no.

We’re talking something like a bell curve, you need to be in the middle, but please for the love of your child’s future please answer this:

Will your child be expected to stop at red lights?

Will your child have to make appointments in inconvenient days?

Do you want your child to be able to live with, at most, a manageable amount of debt?

If you want those things for your child in the future - safety when driving, handling making doctor’s appointments in the schedule available, and financial health - If you want your child to be able to handle that in the future…

They need to learn that it’s ok to be told “no.”

That they can’t get everything exactly when they want it.

That some things are reasonable, but maybe not right now.

That other people have needs too, and we sometimes have to put those needs first for the time being.

Please.

I’m just… Exhausted from the three year olds complaining “But I want it!” or “I don’t want to [take my break]!” for months.

Because that behavior is age appropriate.

It is age appropriate for a child to want to impose their desires on the greater world. They don’t know other people have real feelings, real needs.

They need to learn this.

But if the belief that “I want this!” is going to work for months, that means they A) are getting away with it from someone regularly and B) aren’t learning patience and self control.

And at the minimum, if you want your child to have the independence of a driver’s license, they’re going to have to learn patience and self control.

And I promise you, they can start learning even before the age of 1.

On the flip side, of course, they also need to learn they do have control over the world, but that’s a different rant right now……

(They won’t be good at self control at age 1, in fact the way you know they’re learning is they cry at the word “no.” But that’s the process, and the earlier they understand the world imposes limits on them while having their needs otherwise met, the earlier they can learn coping skills for working within those limits.)

[bluebirddiary]

Schooling

It's nearly summer break and I am making it my goal to teach these kids how to read this summer because their school never taught them how to read. First and second graders flat out not even reading Dr Seuss.

Nobody is allowed to say childcare has no value when I am literally doing the teacher's jobs for them because they have neither the time nor resources to do so.

I should note, half these kids ain't white. I'm not even paid for this.

[floralcavern]

People don’t seem to understand just how important connection is for babies, even just at a few months old. And I don’t just mean for physical health. In psychology, there’s a series of dilemmas that every age group has to go through. For example, I am currently in the identity vs role confusion stage. And newborns have a stage too, that being trust vs mistrust, from ages 0-1 years. If their caregiver is not providing them the proper attention, even if it’s so much as taking too long to get to the baby while they’ve been crying for too long, the baby will develop mistrust. And this could develop into unhealthy attachment styles. Kids who are extremely clingy and attached to their moms, or kids super distant and unresponsive to their moms. From the very beginning, human connection is going to affect the kind of person you will grow into.

[linguisticsnerd13]

guys I love teaching preschool

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

heard someone complaining about their kid say "it's like they have a mind of their own" and like. yeah. cause they do.

[feastingonchrist]

ooh i am nervous about Wednesday because i start my work test run, and then two more times after that to see if it's gonna be the right fit for me. my boss told me she will help me as best as she can. but if it doesn't work out she may let me be an aid instead. i honestly would rather be an aid, especially starting out because i feel that the position she has me in requires more experience, and i already have no experience in either position..... i'm just gonna go in there with openness and see what happens. Gonna let God handle that one lol.

i'm just grateful my job is at my church and not elsewhere because there is a lot more grace towards all of us and we're in a safe environment with a team of mainly mothers and some younger girls who have a passion for teaching, caring for infants/children and teaching them about Jesus! I am excited to start working, i just feel so unqualified that it's hard to see how i'm gonna fit in.

[icefur]

I've been taking an early childcare job recently, and I've come to the unironic conclusion that children are insane and imbued with the powers of Chaos. Here's a summary (loose) of what's happened so far. -First day, I instantly decided that three year olds were amazing. Cute, but not squishy cute like babies. Good at conversation, actually better than I am. One child strikes up a conversation with me about socks, entirely to show off his own socks (Blue with flying pigs on them). It was very engaging. -Had two classes so far where there's only been one child and two teachers (plus the child's parent). One was a three year old, the other was damn five months old. -Transcript of a conversation with a three year old:

Me: How old are you? 3: Three Me: That's a very good age to be. Do you like being three? 3: Yeah. But I wanna be three after I'm six. Me (internally): Oh my god, me too.

-Had a baby with a hairstyle that would make any Elvis style musician or actor from Grease jealous. I tried to pop it down. Hair sprang right up like a fluffy whack-a-mole. -Had another baby who I thought was crying several times. When I looked, she was grinning like it was Christmas morning. Damn liar. -Earlier mentioned five month old was being fawned over by three teachers at once (I refuse to admit that one was me). At one point she stood up by herself for the first time 'without support'. She was leaning on another teacher's knee. We unanimously voted that it counted. -Several toddlers imprinted on me. Idk man. -One baby in one of the first classes would not stay in his mother's lap. I nicknamed him Houdini. He explored every damn corner of that room, and had to be held hostage on her lap and retrieved every five seconds. Turns out his real name was Eli or something, I don't remember. -Turns out it's very easy to gaslight babies. Important thing to note: Before this week, I have never considered myself a baby person. I normally teach primary school classes music, so I haven't got much experience with them. But they're very gross, drool on everything, aren't as cute as media makes them out to be. However, I have decided to amend my decision, and call them cute.

In moderation, that is. I still don't want baby drool on me. I refuse to admit that I was fawning over any of them. I did not pick any up.

Might post an update tomorrow after classes

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[disappointeddyke]

I think I’m starting to burn out

[daydreamsinked]

when i taught preschool we had a three year old girl with down syndrome who was famous among her teachers for two phrases: “i’m so frustrated” and “that’s my body, don’t touch it.” one of the most emotionally fluent people i’ve ever met for her age. when i nannied i had a seven year old girl sometimes who, when asked to do something she felt too shy to do, would say “i’m not comfortable doing that.” when i was a summer camp counselor for late elementary & early middle schoolers we’d give them all an age-appropriate talk on consent before the camp dance and i’d frequently have girls coming up to me proud to announce that they’d been confident enough to say no to boys they didn’t want to slow dance with - often even boys who’d ask rudely and repeatedly. there’re a lot of fucked up things about gen alpha and the younger end of gen z - the ipad babies - but millennials are doing a good job parenting their girls. young girls (slash young children being raised & socialized as girls) today have the most emotional intelligence, best understanding of consent and bodily autonomy, and are the most articulate when it comes to emotional expression than any other generation i’ve worked with and it does give me hope tbh