BHS

Breath Holding Spells (BHS)

Recently, my niece has been having moments where she just stops breathing after crying for a long period of time. They started occurring a few months ago, and have been getting a bit frequent. She's been taken to the doctor, but apparently it's nothing serious. I decided to look it up anyway because I often babysit her and it's a bit scary having to deal with something like that on your on, so I wanted to know as much as possible. I found this helpful link. It talks about what it is, what the causes can be, and how to treat a spell after it happens, since in most cases it's not really easily prevented - as children can start crying about many different things. 

This is helpful to me because it helps with dealing with my niece, and it can help me prepare for future encounters with other children who might have the same problem. I will be able to prevent injuries to the child during the time of the spell with this new information.

Blog 22: Final 3-Column Chart

Final Chart

Blog 20: Three Column Chart First Draft

First Draft

Blog 19: Senior Project and ESLRs

1.  What ESLR have you excelled in most in your senior project? 

Effective Learner.

2.  Please explain why you think you have excelled in this ESLR.

I believe I have excelled most in this ESLR because my mentorship requires you to research a bit on your own before taking care of small children, and also because you learn as you go. As you take care of more children, and are around them more often, you start learning new things about the children themselves and how best you should talk to them or treat them, since each child thinks or acts differently. You learn to cooperate with them and in turn they will be likely to listen to you or talk to you more.

3.  Provide evidence from your senior project to support your claim.

Blog 18: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #3

1. What is your essential question?

How can a child care provider create an emotionally and physically healthy child care environment?

2. What is your third answer to your essential question?

By having a proper child-to-staff ratio, all the child’s needs will be met immediately by the provider.

3. What are three details to support or justify your third answer?

• It's one of the biggest indicators as to whether or not the daycare is of quality.
• The younger the children are, the more provider's you'll need per child so that each child is properly looked after.
• It gives each child the proper attention they need, allowing for the risk of injuries to be lowered because they are more closely looked after and are not idle or by themselves.

4. What source helped you prove this answer is justified for your essential question?

There's actually quite a number of sources that helped me justify this answer, but I suppose that the best source was source number 34 (Blau, David. "Chapter Seven." The Child Care Problem: An Economic Analysis. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2001. 125. Print.) because it talks about what makes a daycare "quality" and it mentions the child-to-staff ratio.

5. What do you plan to study next and why?

Something more on communicating with the children, because while there can be countless of answers that include the physical safety and health of the child, it's harder to think of an answer for the emotional and mental aspects of the child.

Blog 16: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #2

1.  What is your essential question?

How can a child care provider create an emotionally and physically healthy child care environment?

2.  What is your second answer to your essential question?

My second answer would be that the child care provider would have to meet all the safety regulations set by the state.

3.  What are three details to support or justify your second answer?

• Children have been injured in daycares before due to lack of safety regulations.
• Many safety regulations are to have certain exits and emergency escape plans, much like a normal school.
• There are a few articles floating about in the internet that show that some parents don't think their child is safe enough at a daycare.

4.  What source helped you prove this answer is justified for your essential question?

Source 46, because it was an article on how a baby was probably permanently injured due to lack of safety regulations held by the daycare the child was in.

5.  What do you plan to study next with your second answer and why?

I plan to continue my study of answer 2 by doing a lot more research on safety issues within daycares, because I currently do not have much research on that. I would also have to research more about what kind of safety regulations are currently in place and if they could be improved upon based on parents' feedback/complaints that can be found in news articles so that I can have more solid information about my second answer.

Blog 10: Senior Project Update

(1) What are you currently doing in your independent component? 

I have found the CPR/First AID class I want to take, it costs a bit of money, but I think it'll be fun. The class is on Saturdays, so I'll probably go and do it in a few weeks. I've contacted the people for the  BASIC program, but they haven't really gotten back to me, so I plan on calling them soon.

(2) What is a recent piece of research that have you reviewed you would say was significant in helping you understand where to go next in your senior project? 

I think the teachers at the Day care I volunteer at are a great help in giving insight on these to research. Basically, my experience during my volunteer hours are research to me, and if I ever need to go into depth with something, I go online and search it. For example, a while ago we were having a lot of trouble with the kids not listening to us and going off doing their own thing - we still sometimes have this problem - so I went online and looked for ways to help them calm down and listen to the teachers - and it did help a bit.

(3) Provide evidence from your independent component or the piece of research as something you recently did.  

I have some photos from my volunteer service, but not from my actual independent component. A good piece of research concerning how to deal with problematic children from article 32 on my WB. It said that the best way to deal with misbehaving children is to either ignore their bad behavior, because if you don't pay attention to it, then they will eventually stop. Another way is to use a time-out method. This method shows them that what they are doing is unacceptable and will not be allowed. But you must always warn them before, and if they don't stop, then you proceed to put them in time-out in a uninteresting place that will not distract the child.

Blog 9: Working EQ and Possible Answers

(1) What was the working EQ you used during your presentation?

"How can a child care provider ensure an emotionally and physically healthy child?"

(2) Did you decide to revise your working EQ after your presentation? If so, write your revised EQ here.  If not simple write "I am not going to revise my EQ at this time".

I am not going to revise my EQ at this time.

(3) What are possible answers to your current working EQ? 

• Providing the safest and most secure environment in which the child can explore their surroundings without any trouble.
• Constant communication with the child.
• Meeting their needs in a constant manner.

Blog 2: Topic Choice

A. What is your topic and why?

My senior topic is Early Childhood Education and Care. When I first went to do my mentorship hours at the day care center, I didn't think I would stick to this topic once school started. However, the more hours I did, the more I really got to like the children I looked after and the way a center worked. The children were really fun to play with and there was so much you could do with them. You could read them a book, have them read to you, help them with their homework, and then play with them afterwards! I just really enjoyed those hours spent with them, and I really liked seeing their happy faces.

B. What do you hope to accomplish this year with this topic?

• iPoly Citizen: Children tend to sense when you don't take them seriously, so being respectful to a child when looking after them helps in being respectful to everyone around you. As a volunteer in a day care center, you are taking care of a person. Taking care of a person means that you're looking after their well-being the best of your abilities, which also helps with being an iPoly Citizen; taking care of yourself and those around you.
• Effective Communicator: I plan to use my engagement with the children in the day care centers to improve my social skills. Such as when you must be empathetic towards the children so that I may help them better if they are having difficulties in something. Being empathetic can help when a team or group of people are having difficulties understanding one another. 
• Effective Learner: Working with a child is really hands on, so I plan on learning a lot about taking care of children by doing what the owner of the day care does to keep them all on track. Learning about something, or watching someone do it, and then repeating it yourself is a great way to become an effective learner.
• Effective User of Technology: I plan to search and use research under my topic that will help me understand the way a child develops. This will help me be a better user of technology by knowing which sources are credible and how to more quickly search for the information I need.