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August 1, 2022 by Christopher Hooker

Separation Anxiety and Your Children

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Most parents know the difficulty of separation anxiety, a normal developmental phenomenon which comes and goes through all stages of childhood. We’ve experienced the crying that begins as soon as you make a motion to the door, and felt the primal sense of guilt and worry about the “abandonment” of our children that comes with leaving them, even in the best hands. Separation anxiety is common in preschool age children and it’s a struggle for both parents and children. It often comes and goes over many months even when the child is being left with the same people he/she has been cared for regularly.

The moment of parting can be a very difficult time for both the child and the parents. Many kids feel betrayed or scared when they have to part with their parents, and it’s not easy– especially for first-time parents– to leave a sobbing child behind. Parents often feel helpless and guilty during this time. This very normal experience is important to go through even though it can be extremely stressful for everyone.  

Here are 9 steps that might help you and your child with separation anxiety:

The first step is acknowledging that the feeling is normal. It’s okay for your child to feel sad or scared when you leave them, and it’s important to talk about those feelings. Validating their emotions will help your child feel understood. Equally, it’s okay for you to miss them and to admit to yourself that your day would be happier with them.

The second step is to talk about the place you’re leaving them and the people you’re leaving them with. Explain to your child what they can expect when they come to a sitter’s, or Creekside Kids, or when leaving them home. Describe the activities they will do and the people they will meet, so that they can begin to concentrate on the adventure ahead of them, knowing that they’ll see you afterward. The shifting of gears in your child’s mind will help you accept the separation, too.

The third step is to make a good-bye ritual. This can be something as simple as a hug and a kiss before you leave. This will help your child feel loved and secure, and will reaffirm to you that your child isn’t losing any love for you as you part ways.

The fourth step is to be consistent. Separation anxiety can be triggered by changes in routine, so it’s important to be consistent with your drop-off and pick-up times. One of the best ways to make your child understand and believe you will return is to consistently turn up when you say you will. Because this isn’t always possible, it’s important to acknowledge when you are inconsistent. Make sure they understand that it had nothing to do with any tantrum they had or accident; let your child know that sometimes, Mommies and Daddies fail to keep their word, and all we can do is try to make it up to each other.

The fifth step is to give your child a comfort item. This can be a blanket, stuffed animal, or toy that they can keep with them during the day. It should be something they can readily associate with their family and connect them, even when you’re apart.

The sixth step is to stay positive. When you say goodbye, tell your child that you’ll see them later and that you’re looking forward to hearing about their day. As much as it may help your child, this will help give you the strength to leave.

The seventh step is to avoid sneak departures. While this helps you avoid drama, this will only increase your child’s anxiety, and feelings of betrayal. And kids catch on, and it will make separations that much harder. You should never try to outsmart your child, because sooner or later, they’re going to beat you at your own game.

The eighth step is to make sure the caregiver is prepared. Before you leave, introduce your child to the caregiver and explain what they can expect during the day. All kids, at some point, learn to say, “You’re not the boss of me.” But it can reassure a child to see and hear you making certain that their special needs are in place and that they haven’t been forgotten in the hand-off shuffle.  You can also ask that the caregiver send pictures or texts when the child calms and settles in.  Some children take only 2-3 minutes and others take 30 minutes or more.  Each child is different.

The ninth step is to be patient. Separation anxiety is a normal part of development and it will eventually go away. These steps may not help immediately, so don’t give up if there’s pushback. Consistent work towards normalizing separations is possible if you remain consistent and don’t give in to tantrums or parental anxieties.

Sometimes, it helps to talk to other parents. Separation anxiety is a common experience, so talking to other parents can be helpful. You can share tips and find support from others who are going through the same thing. If your child’s anxiety is severe or interfering with their daily life, it may be time to seek help from a mental health professional. Seek help from a counselor or child’s mental health professional if the anxiety persists. 

Separation anxiety is a normal part of development and it will eventually go away. In the meantime, these 11 steps may help you and your child through this difficult time. If you’d like to discuss a place at Creekside Kids for your kids, we’d like to invite you to click this embedded link to schedule an appointment. Let’s get to know each other! Like us on Facebook to follow our stories for news and updates. We’re located at 1201 W Cheyenne Road, Colorado Springs, CO 80906, and we can be reached at (719) 635-9111. Our new hours of operation are 6:45 am until 5:45 pm, Monday through Friday.

Filed Under: Parents Tips Tagged With: Children Learning, Colorado Springs, Creekside Kids, Emilia Learning, Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia Approach, Reggio Emilia Philosophy

September 1, 2021 by Christopher Hooker

No Pressure Potty Training

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Toilet training is an essential step in a child’s development. However, it’s easy for a child to acquire complex emotions about their bladder and bowel control. Potty training can be fraught with anxiety or come naturally as daybreak, depending on the child and the approach.

Potty training can begin when a child is between 18 and 24 months but can take longer in children with special developmental needs. Most children start closer to age 2. Before you should introduce a child to potty training, there are some benchmarks that they must reach in their progress:

  • Sitting still. When your child is go-go-go in the early stages of walking and mobility, they may not be ready to learn the process of perching on a potty for longer than a minute. A child eager to get up again isn’t ready for potty training.
  • Saying “No”. While the idea of hearing loud NOs seems counter-intuitive to potty training, this is a good sign. A child that can assert themselves is beginning to develop a sense of self-control.
  • Putting things back. If your child has begun to grasp the idea that X belongs in Y around their environment, congratulations– that’s a necessary step to your child’s understanding of where waste goes and why. If they are still throwing away toys and then crying that they can’t get them, they haven’t grasped the permanency of the potty yet.

The key to successful potty training is to have the patience to let the child show you when they are ready, instead of anxiously promoting potty training before the time is right. Here are some of the signs that your child may be ready for potty training:

  • Retaining. A child with a dry diaper may be associating shame or discomfort with voiding and have begun trying to keep it from you. Awakening dry from a nap may also be a sign that they are retaining.
  • Pooping in secret. Sometimes children pick up on our disgust for the waste itself and worry about our reaction to seeing more poop. They will find a dark corner to void their bowels to avoid upsetting us, compounding the child’s mental discomfort. It’s usually an indication that a parent needs to lighten up a bit, and the child needs assurance and positivity.
  • Copying. It’s a good clue that when you see your child sitting down to poop the way they’ve seen you or siblings do, they may be ready for some assistance in how to use a potty.
  • Pulling down a wet or dirty diaper. Trying to remove their own diapers might indicate that your child is independently trying to manage their waste, although it can just be skin irritation.
  • The direct approach. If your child tells you they are about to go, are going, or have gone, then they are absolutely ready to begin potty training.

At Creekside Kids, we recommend using the Braselton Toilet Training Method. It’s a gentle, natural way to bring a child into potty training. The trick of the Braselton Method is to associate pooing with the toilet and let the child think it was their own idea. 

It begins when you see enough signs to convince you that your child is seriously ready to start. Take your child to select their potty from the store so that it is something good and just for them. Choosing their own toilet is as much about identity as it is an introduction to the concept of privacy. Over time, the child will sit on the potty entirely independently without any prompting from you. 

There’s no need to stress the need to take down a diaper in your child’s first few attempts. It’s a moment for celebration! The act of your child sitting down on the toilet means they correctly associate the potty with voiding and that they’ve graduated to pulldown diapers. Once they adjust to pulldowns, you can show them how to pull their pants down. When your child eventually voids, they will do it by making the association and thinking it’s their idea, their own choice.

We want to thank Autism Community Training and Huggies Pull-Ups for some of the great ideas in this article. If you’d like to discuss a place at Creekside Kids for your kids, we’d like to invite you to click this embedded link to schedule an appointment. Let’s get to know each other! We’re located at 1201 W Cheyenne Road, Colorado Springs, CO 80906, and we can be reached at (719) 635-9111. Our regular hours of operation are 6:30 am until 5:45 pm, Monday through Friday; however, we have a shortened schedule during COVID of 7:00 am to 5:30 pm.

Filed Under: Parents Tips Tagged With: Child Centric, Children Development, Colorado Springs, Creekside Kids, Inspire Children, Reggio Emilia Approach

December 1, 2020 by Christopher Hooker

Holidays in the Time of Crisis

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As December is the calendar end of the year for most of the northern hemisphere, this month holds many rituals and traditions associated with the ending of the cycle and the beginning of a new one. The winter solstice (December 21st) arrives when our hemisphere is tilted away from the sun and reaches its most extreme angle.

Experts agree that ‘rituals foster a sense of belonging and identity and are especially important for children with insecure attachments. Children from families with meaningful rituals do better academically and socially.‘ The people of Colorado Springs have several traditional observations to mark the end of the year. Of course, there are the commercial/secular and spiritual aspects of Christmas, as we celebrate the hope of salvation in new life. Still, there’s also spirituality and steadfast faith in Hanukkah’s Festival of Lights that our candles will hold out, and in Kwanzaa, which celebrates family unity in the creation of new traditions to replace those deep cultural rituals lost to the evils of slavery. 

All three of these holidays center around survival against oppression and terrible odds. They are moved from their natural place on the calendar to mark a time when we most need to remind ourselves that the long nights of December will soon pass as Mother Earth tilts back into position slowly, and Spring returns in a few more months.

With the advent of COVID19, we’ve had to let go of many traditional rituals that sustain us and guide and comfort our children, like trick-or-treating in October, or large extended-family meals for Thanksgiving, to protect our kids and each other. These traditions are essential for children and families, and as we lose them, we must take care to replace them, using the spiritual core of Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa to guide us in how to do this.  Even if your family is not particularly religious, there are many elements of these holidays which can help your family bond during these strange times.

Rituals are an essential part of child development. The American Academy of Pediatrics calls our rituals’ powerful organizers of family life that offer stability during times of stress and transition’. 2020 would certainly be categorized as a time of stress and change. Human beings need the rhythms in our life to remember how to dance through the dark hours. As parents, our children need to see us dancing, and cherishing the rituals and traditions of the season.  The children need to know that even though things are hard now, we believe everything will be fine.

As we reach the end of the darkest days of the year and reach a new beginning with the promise of spring, let’s work to create stronger rituals and develop deeper connections with our children.  The simplicity of being at home more with our families and being more present when celebrating holidays is good for children. Consider adding some of these rituals from across the world as things you can do to see out a hard year on a positive note, with a teaching moment for good measure:

  • Martinmas: a celebration of a patron saint of France, St. Martin du Tours, that teaches kids the value of sharing and sheltering with each other so that we all survive and thrive.  If your family is not religious just take the message of sharing and sheltering each other and run with it.
  • Santa Lucia Day: a special ceremony of making bread that reminds us that there’s enough for everyone and that we all can take part in the ritual of looking after each other.  The religious aspect can be honored or removed to suit your family’s needs.
  • The Spiral of Light: a tradition to mark the Winter Solstice in seeing out the darkest day of the year.  This is a great way to sneak in an astronomy lesson and to celebrate the coming of more light each day.  

We hope that whatever rituals you and your family see out 2020 with, you enjoy them together and in safety this year. If you’d like to discuss a place at Creekside Kids for them, we’d like to invite you to click this embedded link to schedule an appointment. Let’s get to know each other! We’re located at 1201 W. Cheyenne Road, Colorado Springs, CO 80906, and we can be reached at (719) 635-9111. Our normal hours of operation are 6:30 AM until 5:45 PM, Monday through Friday; however, we have a shortened schedule during COVID of 7:00 AM to 5:30 PM.

Filed Under: Parents Tips Tagged With: Cheyenne Mountain, Child Centric, Children Development, Children Learning, Colorado Springs, Creekside Kids, Emilia Learning, flexible child care, flexible day care, Flexible scheduling, Inspire Children, Loris Malaguzzi, Pedagogy, Philosophy Of Education, Province Of Reggio Emilia, Reggio, Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia Approach, Reggio Emilia Philosophy

November 5, 2020 by Christopher Hooker

Superheroes At Play

Photos by Gabriela Braga and T.K. Hammonds of Unsplash and PublicDomainPictures and Raman Talpadi of Pixelbay; composite by Christopher Hooker

 

The Origins of Superhero Play

In every schoolyard, there lurk multiple children, ready to don masks and fight crime (as they define it). Little budding superheroes are all around us, and they often carry lunchboxes that feature their own image.

 

A superhero is a tricky concept for children to learn from. At first glance, they can seem to be a very problematic bunch. But like most things our children encounter in life, they can also teach important lessons if we use the moment as parents, teachers, and guides to explore the broad messages children are unpacking and repeating in the genre. 

 

In this two-part series, we are going to look first at why children look to identify with superheroes and want to emulate them, what need they are fulfilling in children, and what it says about them and the way they see other children in social settings like preschools and child care centers. (Part two will be released in a few months and deals with the choices kids make about whether to play the hero or the villain and the narratives they follow and reconstruct).

 

A Brief History of the Superhero

In order to better understand the phenomenon of superheroes, it might help to explore how Superheroes became such staples in our culture. Superheroes began in 1938 with DC Comics and Superman: a man of steel who was gentle and kind to all but the lawless and cruel. Superman was based on Jerry Siegel’s reaction to the rise of the Nazis and Joe Shuster’s art, marrying in folk heroes and wrestlers of the day.

 

The success of Superman led the publisher to other offerings, including Wonder Woman and the immensely popular Batman. In the sixties, Stan Lee presented a relatable hero… a superhero with everyday problems. His ideas created Marvel Comics, which went on to invent the concept of serial continuity, a shared universe within a publisher’s rights for all characters.

 

By the mid-1980s, Superheroes were more of a footnote in our culture, something only very nerdy kids seemed to be able to admit they liked, as video games were all the rage. Frank Miller’s THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS brought Batman back to the masses by making a Batman comic book for adults (the ‘graphic novel’), but accidentally also created a glut of hyper-violent fare in the 1990s. 

 

Eventually, as the millennium closed, the interest in superheroes also seemed to be dying out, at last. And then two things happened that would bring back superheroes in a big way.

 

The Return of the Superheroes

On September 11th, 2001, the World Trade Center was attacked. Going from a seeming imperviousness to vulnerability overnight created an atmosphere where culturally, Americans needed mythic heroes again. We needed bigger than life heroes to handle the fears we had about monsters lurking to kill us and destroy the American way of life.

 

At that same moment in time, the technology became possible to replicate the kinds of worlds in comic books that contain inexpensively on film through computer-generated effects. Impossible heroes and creatures were now possible with computer effects that became more accessible each year that followed.

 

What Does It Mean for our Kids?

The result of all this sudden resurgence of Superheroes is that, although they are now marketed to adults and teens now, young kids still love them. They recognize the colors the characters wear, with red and blue being heroic, and purple and green being villainous or possibly monstrous, and that makes it possible for kids to understand these heroes and villains simply by how color is used to bring them to life. 

 

With the boom in superhero films and television, a push for diversity has led to kids being able to see themselves as the hero in ways they couldn’t before. There are heroes of all shapes and sizes, of all backgrounds and cultures, now. The new Batwoman will be played by a black woman. The next phase of Marvel films will include a female Black Panther and Ms. Marvel, a skin-stretching heroine of middle-eastern descent. This diversity has allowed children for the first time to ALL be invited to play. Kids no longer have to feel “last-picked on the playground” in a sea of white, mostly male heroes.

 

Children have never needed an excuse to be into superheroes. It makes perfect sense that a child would gravitate towards superheroes. The bright costumes, the strange powers, the ability to enact change for the better in the world– these are the kind of elements kids will always be attracted to, as they are mostly powerless to decide things such as, what they wear or how they live and have little control over their world they inhabit.

 

Beyond that, perhaps kids need, in a very worrying time, some kind of belief in heroism, and are expressing a wish that they could be the agents of change and order that superheroes are in their fictional worlds. What they are expressing goes back to Jerry Siegel’s childhood impetus for Superman: a hero that could protect us from the everyday horrors of crime, violence and disease. Kids who wear superhero costumes often do so in order to emulate the heroes that inspire them to be better citizens.

 

The real issues surrounding superhero play are what out kids choose to do with their play. They are trying to express good and evil themes written by much older people who did not understand that young children would be processing these things even if they had never seen the full narrative. A child can absorb much about a hero from a few minutes of a movie trailer, and in seeing something they want to aspire to– to be brave, to stand up for others– may miss the context of the full narrative, or simply repeat depictions of the violence in the original material.

 

In Teacher Tom’s blog, he describes a class rule-making session where half of his kids wanted to ban superhero play. By getting the kids to talk about what was offensive about the superhero play– scares, and perhaps a slight threat of potential violence– the superhero kids began to see the effect their play has on other kids, and empathized. Rather than stick to their guns or shut down the play altogether, they openly reassured each other and worked on making Superhero play less scary for the rest of the kids. That kind of respect for the needs of others and willingness to compromise is the kind of heroism we need in kids: empathy and trust.

 

Because most superhero narratives are actually written mostly for adults and not for children, it is important that we monitor what kids are expressing in their superhero play. Some stories are violent and even play-violence can be traumatic to a child if it disrupts their core beliefs or they are accidentally hit/hurt by an overly dramatic friend. 

 

Having a conversation with young children about their stories can also help them learn to be better at cooperative storytelling, too. It can also be useful in teaching kids that the path to the resolution of a conflict doesn’t have to include violence. Superhero narratives often begin with heroes in conflict with each other. Then they often resolve their differences as equals and unite against a common threat. On a playground scale, this offers kids the chance to enter the cooperative narrative as any hero or villain that they find attractive, and then express good through that character, by joining with the heroes to save their fantasy world.

 

As we monitor superhero play, it’s important to take into account the child’s social/emotional state and needs that are being expressed in the story:

 

  • How they are treating others in their superhero persona? 
  • What vocabulary are they using? 
  • Are they ‘Othering’ kids or forcing them to be villains in their narrative?
  • Are they using their story to bully kids of different backgrounds? 

 

Queen Abby the Donut Protector and Other Tiny Superheroes

I wanted to share with you an example of superhero play on a smaller scale that includes a parent interacting well with their child’s superhero play. The following video went viral in early September, from the YouTube channel AlongCameAbby. Abby likes superhero play and donuts. In the video, her father plays with her by making up a story of a donut burglar, knowing Abby loves donuts:

 

 

As Abby works things out in cooperative play with her dad, she asks if she is the donut thief, understanding that her father is targeting her love of donuts for their exchange. When her Dad reflects the question back on her, she quickly and guiltily answers “No”, until she processes that the donuts she loves and eats are at her own home and bought for her. “I only eat MY donuts…” she says, processing the difference between her love of the donuts and the crime of going into someone else’s home and taking their donuts.

 

Abby declares herself a ‘goodie’, and that she is a hero protecting other people’s donuts, asserting her heroic persona. She is building an archetype in play with her Dad here, and it’s about her values. She has no clear powers yet as a superhero that she has defined, but she still insists she IS one.

 

When asked what reward she gets for being a hero, the obvious answer would be, for most kids and most adults, ‘I get to eat my donuts.” But for Abby, her answer is heroic in itself: “I get to be a superhero.” Free of a sense of entitlement, for Abby, being good is the reward. Her Dad calls her noble and compliments her for that, and she even demurs from being complimented.

 

While group play is something kids have difficulty navigating without adult interference, Abby’s one-on-one play and gentle guidance from her Dad is a good lesson in how kids can be their own heroes, with just a little guidance from adults and a clear understanding of right and wrong, and that does make it right.

Filed Under: Parents Tips Tagged With: Cheyenne Mountain, Child Centric, Children Learning, Colorado Springs, Creekside Kids, Emilia Learning, Inspire Children, Philosophy Of Education, Province Of Reggio Emilia, Reggio, Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia Approach, Reggio Emilia Philosophy

September 2, 2020 by Christopher Hooker

3 Ways to Stimulate Your Children’s Learning Process While Having Fun

Photo by Ashton Bingham on Unsplash

 

Now that school is back in session and your family is adjusting to the “new normal” of the 2020/2021 school year, we want to encourage you and your children to have fun.

 

It’s no secret that we learn best when we’re having fun doing it. That is why, at Creekside Kids in Colorado Springs, we follow the Reggio Emilia learning philosophy of hands-on, group-play style learning in our own classroom programs.

 

But when we are outside of the classroom and back at home, we can continue developing the minds and hearts of children with play-filled learning. Here are three of our favorite ways to stimulate your children’s learning process while having fun — inside and outside of the classroom.

 

  1. Arts & Crafts
  2. Music
  3. Exploring nature & science

 

Arts & crafts allow us to flex our creative muscles. It is so much fun to create with simple things like paper, crayons, scissors, glue, and other fun elements like macaroni shells or buttons. The mind learns about creating textures, straight lines, squiggly lines, shapes, colors when doing arts and crafts. Plus, when the mind is allowed to wander a bit while creating, the creator experiences moments of inspiration, clarity, and fun that allows them to happily dive deeper into the creative process. Who knows? Your home-style arts & crafts session could nurture the next Picasso or Banksy.

 

Music is an incredible learning vehicle for math, rhythm, verbal expression, hand-eye coordination, stimulation of the senses, and creativity. A house filled with music is often a happy house, and anyone studying music contributes to those positive vibrations in the home. It’s no secret that music is an essential building block for developing the skills and discipline of engineers, artists, writers, and dancers. Everyone in the world benefits from the feel-good vibrations of music, and the brain uses music to learn, heal, relax, rev up, and remember. When your children study music, they develop a life-long skill that brings them and others much joy. Who knows? Your children’s musical endeavors can help them rise to fame on stage, develop music for video games, or give them a much-needed outlet to express themselves.

 

Exploring nature & science includes gardening, watching birds and animals in their habitat, and going for a hike. Exploring nature and science stimulates the minds and bodies of children in so many countless ways. See, smell, touch, taste, and hear the nature around Colorado Springs. We are so fortunate to be living in one of the most beautiful places on earth. We have mountains and plains. We have snow and sunshine. We have trees and flowers. We have birds and bears. Exploring nature develops the minds of scientists, poets, zoologists, winemakers, astronauts, musicians, biologists, inventors, and more. Who knows? Your hikes around Colorado Springs could nurture the imaginations of the next Nicola Tesla, Elon Musk, or Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

 

There are many proven studies showing that play stimulates learning. Plus, when you love what you do, it feels like play. Playful work awakens the desire to keep pursuing, keep learning, and keep growing our techniques. After at least 10,000 hours of playful pursuit of our chosen hobby or craft, we all eventually become masters of that craft and can make a comfortable living doing what we love.

Filed Under: Parents Tips Tagged With: Child Centric, Colorado Springs, Inspire Children, Pedagogy, Philosophy Of Education, Reggio, Reggio Emilia Approach, Reggio Emilia Philosophy

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