Family Collaboration

What To Do When Family Collaboration Is As Challenging As The Child's Behavior

What To Do When Family Collaboration Is As Challenging As The Child's Behavior

Often, our job as early childhood educators goes beyond the children and is to support the families. I was doing a training last week with teachers and when I asked them about the behavioral challenges they faced they certainly had some stories to share.

But when I asked them about the challenges they faced in collaborating with families the energy of the room went up about 10 decibels (can you measure energy in decibels?). There was a collective, "oh yes - let me tell you...!" The frustration was palpable.