Relatioinshis matter: Positive parenting in early years Flashcards
ABCDE?
Ask questions
Build on each famiily’s relational strengths
Counsel with family-centred guidance
Develop plans for changing behaviours related to sleep or discipline, as needed
Educate about positive parenting strategies
What issues do parents often need advice on?
Crying
Sleep
Difficult behaviours
Strategies to work with and empower families?
- Proactive
- Flexible scheduling
- Clear protocols for assessment and follow-up
- Coordinated effort and communication among staff
- Active links with community resources
What is the strongest modifiable determinant of behavioural and emotional health in children?
Parenting practices
What are ACES? Examples?
Stressful or traumatic events in childhood:
- Abuse
- Neglect
- Parental separation or divorce
- Witnessing violence
- Poverty
- Parental depression
- Maltreatment
Relationship between ACEs and health?
- Strong dose-effect relationship between early life trauma and health risk behaviours and later disease
- Toxic stress has a profound effect across multiple systems:
- Neurological
- Immunological
- Psychiatric
- Behavioural
What can buffer stress and build resilience in children? What can start an interventioin for families?
- Caring adults
- Opening the conversation
Sleep for infants?
- Consistnet, calming sleep routines (‘bath, book, bed’)
- Settle babies into their cribs drowsy but still awake
- Put to bed without a bottle
- Wait a few minutes to see if they settle to sleep on their own after waking
- Avoid overstimulation during night-time feeds or diaper changes
Sleep for toddlers?
- Consistent, calming bedtime routine
- No screens
- Active during day and after dinner, preferably not withtin couple hours of bedime
Recommendations for family centred guidance for crying?
-Promote responsiveness and proactive comforting for crying or signs of child stress
Recommendations for family centred guidance for sleep?
- Evaluate bedtime routines and sleep duration. Be sure to obtain an accurate diagnosis before intervening for any sleep related problem
- Prioritize strategies that encourage self soothing over those that prevent night-waking, and educate parents around normal sleep patterns and behaviours
Recommendations for family centred guidance for challenging behaviours?
- Ask whether parents have any concerns about their child’s behaviour or emotional life. Listen, empathize, and offer anticipatory or response guidance, as needed
- Remind parents when misbehaviours are normal for age and stage, have meaning in developmental terms, or may occur for a reason
- Explore the ABCs of problem behaviours with parents, and help with discipline planning, if needed
- Recommend targeted reading community supports, and skills training, as appropriate
