Our aims and objectives are modelled on the ten common Principals, as set out by Mia Kellmer Pringle, a leading Early Years pioneer.
Our Ten Child Care Commandments
1. Give continuous, consistent loving care – it is essential for mental health as food is for the body.
2. Give generously of your time and understanding – playing with and reading to children matters more than a tidy smooth-running room.
3. Provide new experiences and bathe children in language – this enriches their growing minds.
4. Encourage children to play in every way, both alone and with other children – exploring, imitating, constructing, pretending and creating.
5. Give more recognition of effort than achievement.
6. Give children ever-increasing responsibility. Like all skills, responsibility needs to be practiced.
7. Remember that each child is unique. What is suitable handling for one may not be suitable for another.
8. Make the way you show your disapproval fit the individual child’s temperament, age and understanding.
9. Never threaten to stop loving a child or to give a child away you may reject behaviour but never suggest that you will reject the child.
10. Do not expect gratitude. The child is with you not through its own choice but through the choice of others.
Adapted from Mia Kellmer Pringle ‘The Needs of Children.’
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