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The Rest of the Story
August 22, 2017
What kind of people do we want to be? As human as we can be, in support of children being as human as they can be.
-Ann Pelo and Margie Carter, From Teaching to Thinking
-Ann Pelo and Margie Carter, From Teaching to Thinking
Gigi Schweikert, writing in the book, Engaging Families in Early Childhood Organizations, tells the following story:
"It's hard to love every child and even more difficult to love their parents. With the hurried lives of some parents, we often wonder, 'Why did they have children anyway?' I knew a parent who took a sales job and hardly saw his children. The wife was like a single mother. The father was always working and spent little time with his children. It was easy for me to judge his parenting as uncaring. I found out later that that dad grew up very poor and was determined to give his children a college education. That dad was my dad and all three of us, his children, finished college."
Schweikert goes on to assert that "if we really want to value parents, to form an alliance, we have to understand who they are."
Engaging Families in Early Childhood Organizations |
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High-quality early childhood programs are highly effective in engaging and supporting the families they serve. Engaging Families addresses the full spectrum of responsibilities in working with families: welcoming, supporting, engaging, and communicating with parents. In addition, it provides helpful advice on working with all types of families in today's society.
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