What Kind of Parent Am I? What Kind of Child do I have? The Power of Childcare to Promote Healthy Families

1. Which of the following are reasons to partner with parents?

a. Parents are the child’s first and most important teacher.

b. The parent has the right to be involved.

c. Parent involvement is correlated to school success.

d. It is the architecture within which children’s minds and bodies are developed.

e. All of the above.

2. The quality of the ‘co-caregiving relationships’ between a child’s parents and their childcare provider impacts the child’s experience and developmental outcomes.

a. True

b. False

3. Parents’ and children’s reactions to separations can be influenced by:

a. Temperament of both parent and child

b. The developmental stage of the child;

c. Past experiences of both parent and child;

d. Current stressors for child and parent

e. All of the above

4. What is a good reason to use ‘open-ended questions’ (rather than ‘yes-no questions’) when communicating with parents?

a. It makes me sound like an expert.

b. It helps the parent step back from the situation and reflect on how it affects them or what they believe it means.

c. It can make the conversation quicker and more efficient.

d. None of the above.

5. Paying attention to our emotional reactions is as important as the information we know when working with young children and their parents

a. True

b. False

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