CD C28

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CD C28

• Programs for Infants and Toddlers

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Objectives

• List characteristics of a nurturing infant
  toddler caregiver
• State guidelines for proper infant toddler care
• Design functional and developmentally appropriate
  infant and toddler environments
• Handle the routines of infants and toddlers
• Select toys that are safe and developmentally
  appropriate for infants and toddlers
• Plan the curriculum for infants and toddlers
• Maintain the environment to prevent illness

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Characteristics of infant and toddler Caregivers

• Your behavior will influence the behavior of the
  children
• Caregiver responsiveness is promotes self esteem,
  trust, and confidence
• Part of your responsibility includes helping
  children express their feelings, love, joy,
  anger, satisfaction, and sadness
• All caregivers at a center need to determine the
  level of acceptable behavior
• Be aware of recent research in child care field

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Guidelines

• Provide a safe and healthy environment
• Develop trust with infants and their families
• Respect all cultures
• Meet unique needs of children with curriculum
• Care for child affectionately
• Respond to distress immediately
• Follow a consistent routine
• Encourage curiosity
• Avoid over stimulation
• Help children develop a positive regard for their
  world
• Plan experiences to master skills

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Infant and toddler environments

• Attractive
• Comfortable
• Feeding
• Diapering
• Sleeping
• Soft floors for crawling
• Washable floors for spills
• Infants do not need darkness to sleep

• Open areas
• Hooks
• Cubbies
• Playing
• Napping
• Diapering
• Eating
• Outdoor play area for mastering large motor skills

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Caring for infants and toddlers

• Crying is their Communication
• Crys should be addressed promptly
• Learn the meanings of different cries
• Separation Anxiety
• 9 to 18 months of age some children experience
  feelings of fear and distress from being
  separated from a parent, sign that they are
  developing a close relationship with parents
• Accept their feelings

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Handling Routines

• Feeding Infants
• Grow the most rapidly throughout this time in
  life
• Eat several time a day, Make nutrition and
  feeding a top priority
• Infants need breast milk or formula, preferable
  warmnot heated in microwave- uneven
• 4-6 months can start infant cereals, pureed foods
• Watch for cues that the baby is full, crying,
  turning head away from bottle, closing mouth
  tightly
• Feeding Toddlers
• teach safety and sanitation
• wash hands and face regularly
• serve finger foods
• Serve a variety to introduce different things to
  toddlers

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Handling Routines

• Diapering and Toileting
• Talk and sing to make children feel comfortable
  and secure with diapering and toileting
• Be encouraging about accidents and potty training
• Check diaper as indicator of overall health
• Wash hands before and after
• Use rubber gloves
• Check for and prevent diaper rash
• Keep changing area clean and disinfected

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Handling Routines

• Nap Time
• Newborns sleep 16-20 hours a day
• Infants usually need 2 naps a day for one hours
• Nap times may be staggered to meet needs of
  children
• Keep the schedule consistent when it is developed

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Toys for infants and toddlers

• DAP
• Safe
• Balance
• Promote all types of development
• Inventory p. 431

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Parent Involvement

• Keep a file on activities they have met with
  success
• Create a way of correspondence
• Weekly letter home
• Bulletin board of behavior stickers
• Assignment Create your own way to talk to
  parents on a regular basis about their
  accomplishment, health, problems, social skills,
  motor skills, etc..

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Parent info sheet

• Should be completed when parents register with
  the center
• Needs to be updated regularly
• Food preferences and allergies are important info
• Parents goals and concerns need to be discussed
• Maintenance of records can track progress or lack
  thereof

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Sample parent info sheet
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Physical Development
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Illness Policy

• Clean all surfaces and materials regularly
• Wash things in hot water
• Give parents a copy of policy prior to enrollment
• Temp of 101
• Vomiting or diarrhea
• Bronchitis symptoms
• Sever cold with fever and nose drainage
• Rash
• Chicken pox, mumps, measles, scarlet fever, or
  whooping cough

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Quiz 1

• Always respond to a babys crying by?
• Ignore the baby
• Feed the baby
• Try to solve the problem
• None of the above

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Quiz 2

• What is separation anxiety?
• Extreme fear of being left alone
• Intense anxiety about parents leaving
• Fear of strangers
• Anxiety about separation from friends

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Quiz 3

• When do children experience separation anxiety?
• 12-18 months
• 8-12 months
• 9-18 months
• 18-24 months

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Quiz 4

• How do you heat a bottle for an infant?
• Bottle warming mechanism or pot on stove
• Microwave
• Oven
• You do not heat a bottle

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Quiz 5

• What is an advantage to keeping a toy inventory?
• _______________________________________

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Quiz 6

• Parent information sheets and record keeping is
  vital for what purpose..
• Track childs accomplishments
• Be familiar with allergies
• Recognize problems
• All of the above

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Quiz 7

• Infants communicate through______.

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Quiz 8

• The most common reason that illness spreads
• contaminated foods
• contaminated hands
• sharing blankets
• none of the above

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Quiz 9

• When should the illness policy be given to
  parents?
• When the child gets sick
• When the parents ask for it
• Prior to enrollment
• Never, it is not important

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Quiz 10

• A child should be sent home if they have a ______
  degree fever or higher.