In relation to your children we will…
- Acknowledge the uniqueness and potential of each child.
- Recognize early childhood as a unique and valuable stage of life and accept that each phase within early childhood is important in its own right.
- Honour the child’s right to play, in acknowledgement of the major contribution of play to development.
- Enhance each child’s strengths, competence and self-esteem.
- Ensure that our work with children is based on their interests and needs and lets them know they have a contribution to make.
- Recognize that young children are vulnerable and use our influence and power in their best interests.
- Create and maintain safe healthy settings that enhance children’s autonomy, initiative and self worth and respect their dignity.
- Help children learn to interact effectively and in doing so, to learn to balance their own rights, needs and feelings with those of others.
- Base our work with children on the best theoretical and practical knowledge about early childhood as well as on particular knowledge of each child’s development.
- Respect the special relationship between children and their families and incorporate this perspective in all our interactions with children.
- Work to ensure that young children are not discriminated against on the basis of gender, race, age, religion, language, ability, culture or national origin.
- Acknowledge the worth of the cultural and linguistic diversity that children bring to the environment.
- Engage only in practices that are respectful of and provide security for children and in no way degrade, endanger, exploit, intimidate or harm them psychologically or physically.
- Ensure that our practices reflect consideration of the child’s perspective.
