Ethic & Manners
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by: michaela007
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Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 Time: 2:40 PM
This message is for parents, guardians, teachers, educators, friends & family member
We all decide to take a responsibility for our little ones. As an parents, teachers, educators, or baby sitters. We gave them birth, provide them with safety and healthy environment, give them healthy nutrition. We are giving them love, respect and all necessary education they need in their next steps of their lives…. We all grow up with them either in home, day care, pre-school, kindergarten & or elementary.We are all supporting them in all areas of child growth & development, we helping them develop their fine & gross motors skills, we are expanding their Language & communication skills, we are showing them personal & social skills as well as cognitive.
We all are following an age appropriate curriculum. We teach them the Alphabet, the numbers, how to read & write, recognizing & writing the numbers. introducing them and making them understand the days of the week, the months of the year, the seasons. Together with them we are being the explorers, the scientists. We are their best friends, which recognize their feelings, we see the needs each of them. We are helping them to make correct choices, we are forming their behavior. We are the teachers that they can account on, we are practically their family.
We are teaching/ introducing and showing them every day what is right & what is wrong. But sometimes we are forgetting an important part in our daily lives…..…..What the proper manners are….. What do you think? Which are the most magic words?? ..Thank You. Please? May I? You are welcome, Etc.
We all are from different cultures, with different backgrounds and skills. One we have in common, ….the master role we play in our children’s live. Proper manners will help us and our children to have a better representing skills, better success in their lives. You probably noticed the differences yourself: “ How many students enter your facility or your class and how many from them are greeting you??”
Way to many from us are being side- tracked in our minds and forgetting our manners. Good Morning, Good afternoon, Good night”, are the most simple fraise’s in our daily routines. These words are being so simple and so much used, that we one day forgot to use them, we forgot the meaning of these words. With these words we are not only being polite, we are respectfully showing our presence, as well as we acknowledge presence of the others.
We all are a busy people. We wake up early in the morning. We are preparing the breakfast, we are helping our children to brush their teeth. We get them dress and taking them to the bus stop or to the preschool. In the mean time we are also thinking in our schedule. “Do I have today appointment? How many?, did I miss any deadline? Am I going to be late?! Did I check my son’s/ daughter’s homework last night?”.......These and many more questions are flashing in our brains. When the time comes, you have the feeling that you can not think straight anymore, you do not now what comes first, next and the last think you wanted to do….. and you are feeling overwhelmed,…STOP, take a step back, take a deep breath, calm yourself down. Remember that all what you do, how you act and how you speak and react is being supervised and noticed by our children’s brain. A child copies everything we do and everything we do not do. Copies the way how we are and how we are representing ourselves.We need to have ourselves in control, then we are the examples of our children future.
We need to teach our children proper manner like:
To answer when asked to,To listen when talked to,how to proper sit at the table and which silverware comes with the dish, finger in the mouth, finger in the nose head scratching, how to hold a knife, how to cut the fish, where & how to blow a nose and wash hands, the time to talk, the time to take turns, not to push, not to hit, the use of inside voices, etc. Also, using a simple phrase like:” Good morning Ms. Adams” as well as to get a respond like:” Good Morning to you too Elijah” – is one example of basic manners & routines to start a day.
You can introduce correct manners to your students during the all day. Remember that children love to by noticed and to be priced.Some students just yelling:” Water!!!: Instead of:” Can I have some water please?”, or”May I have some water please?” By showing them the correct communication skills, we not just expand their language skills we are also showing them how to be polite and show manners. There are so many ways how to introduce your students proper manners, just get creative!
About the Author
Michaela P. - Childcare professional in Lehigh Acres, Fl
