WAHM correct me if I am wrong but you are not looking for this for yourself but as something to offer your staff training wise because you operate a small centre in your home town in Alberta?


While I agree that in an ideal world we would all have common sense about what is best for children I empathize as well that when you have employees you cannot always wait for their common sense to be developed specially if it is different than the businesses definition cause well these days sense is not all that 'common' at all since we all have such different values that motivate our choices and actions ... aka those who think it is common sense to allow a child to cry it out when they are sick or scared so that they can learn to be 'tough' in this world and those who think it is common sense to support a child through developing resiliency skills on how to cope with illness and fear and so forth without leaving them to cry and figure it out on their own so to speak.

Reaching In and Reaching Out is something many centres in Ontario are using with their staff to help them ensure that their program is supporting the social and emotional development of the children and themselves to reduce stress and promote healthy conflict resolution and so forth ~ it is also been offered at the Ontario Early Years Centres for both parents, caregivers and home childcare providers to support them in ensuring they have strong resiliency skills as well for dealing with life's adversity. I have taken the course a few years back and found it very helpful for program planning and all sorts of applications in my program both when I worked in centre environment and still at home with my smaller group which is why I would highly recommenced it ... in fact it was very helpful just in my personal life as well.