Challenges as a Child Care Professional

9/13/2013

1. Share one of the most challenging parts of working with families, and one of the best parts.

Francesca Vespa

11/13/2016 06:51:09 pm

The best past is building up strong relationships with families. A more challenging aspect is discussing difficult subjects like behavioral concerns with parents.

Olena Velychko

11/16/2016 12:48:24 am

From my experience, there are 2 worst and most challenging parts of working with families:
1. When parents are in a divorce/separation process
2. Loss of a family member who was really close to a child.

the best part is being trusted by a family

Miko

11/19/2016 04:01:46 pm

One of the most challenging parts of working with families is when the parents do not have time to build a relationship with me allowing open communication to go back and forth between us about their child.
One of the most rewarding is being able to watch the parents begin to see their children for independence and values that may not have been identified before and the pride that grows from the parent of the child and also the confidence that this gives to the child.

Kim

11/24/2016 02:24:15 pm

One of the hardest parts is when the families question you about everything. One of the best parts is spending time with them and them showing you how much they really appreciate you

Liliana Camacho

11/25/2016 11:45:43 am

One of the most challenging parts about working with the families is when they don't have the extra time to stop and talk about the Childs performance through out the day.
One of the best parts is when they allow me to care for their Child through the day!

Amarily keeton

11/25/2016 10:28:42 pm

I strongly that if the parents work with the child home it helps the teachers a lot. And when they don't help the child or communicate with teachers and makes it hard for us to help them

channingwaage@gmail.com

11/26/2016 11:27:00 pm

A challenging aspect of working with families is effectively sandwich communicating with them. It's difficult to convey behaviors that aren't necessarily easy to work with, especially if the parents aren't aware of the behavior.

A rewarding aspect of working with families is feeling their gratitude for teaching their children.

Tracy Williams

11/27/2016 03:49:13 pm

A challenging aspect of working with families is talking to parents about their child's behavior that's a result of a situation at home. The best part about working with families is sharing the stories of children learning new things and how excited they are to learn new things

Eric Peterson

11/29/2016 11:42:33 am

Share one of the most challenging parts of working with families, and one of the best parts.

One of the best parts about working with families is seeing how happy they are, or become, about leaving their children in your care. It is also great to solve problems together. How they open up over time. Sharing the activities and successes at the childcare with them (pictures, art, etc).

One of the challenges is talking about challenges their kids might be having, and breaching that conversation in a gentle way that leads to mutual solutions.

Peter

12/2/2016 10:45:12 am

The most challenging part of working with a family is trying to best listen to and respond to their desires and needs, but as a result, one of the best parts of working with a family is the growth that is exhibited by the child when being a guide for them.

Rachel

12/3/2016 06:07:16 pm

Marci Gochnour

12/6/2016 06:25:56 pm

It is challenging talking to the parents about their child behavior. However it is good talking about it because it could help you both see where the problem area is and how the provider and parent can help the child

Jessica Hachman

12/12/2016 08:37:59 pm

One of the most challenging things for me about working with families is talking about a child behavior that is either new or odd for the child. You have to be empathetic in a way and not come on too strong. It's really hard to do with a newer family too. One of the best things about working with families is getting to know their child and the family and telling the family new little things that their child did that day.

Karlee McCarroll

12/14/2016 07:30:46 pm

One of the best parts is the special relationship I get to share with the whole family including the children. One of the worst parts is having to discuss tough subjects with behavioral issues

Sherry

12/16/2016 09:01:01 pm

For me the most challenging is establishing a relationship with the child and the family. Sometimes it can be tough for parents to trust their children in your care and it takes time to develop a trusting relationship with both the parents and children. The most rewarding is gaining that trust and recognizing when both parents and children are comfortable with you as a caregiver and you now have a special bond with each family.

Shannon Ludvigson

12/18/2016 09:33:18 pm

One of the most challenging parts about working with families is either when there is no apparent interest in involvement on their part. Another is when there is a lack of open communication and misunderstandings occur. The best part is when a family truly understands and appreciates all the time and care that goes into caring for their child each day. When i can bond with a family over the common interest that we share-their child.

Ashley Aiello

12/21/2016 10:22:28 am

The most challenging part about working with parents is the lack of communication that unfortunately frequently occurs. I have cared for many children whose parents are extremely busy and don't make efforts to speak to the child's caregiver. The relationship between caregivers/teachers and parents needs to occur in order to benefit the child and create consistent schedule. One of the best parts of working with parents is when they encourage and support your ideas and inputs of their child. Another great thing is when parents show that they trust you, your care, and your opinions/ideas.

Jennifer Overmiller

12/29/2016 11:27:51 pm

The most challenging part is when we get new parents that are the pick up drop off type where trying to build a relationship takes a while so the level of communication isn't up to par and when an issue occurs how to approach them can be a little nerve wracking. But the best part is when the relationship is built having parents come in and showing pictures or telling ridiculous stories and laughing together. Makes me love my job all the much more.

Erin Kathleen Ratliff

12/30/2016 02:13:20 pm

The best part about working with a family and their children is you get to witness the special moments of their lives. Most families that I have worked with have shared their private moments with me as their child's teacher and sometimes considered a family friend. It is a privilege to work with children and families. I feel lucky that families have included me in their celebrations and joys as well as set backs and losses.

The downfall with working with families is that every is different and you need to be flexible to individualize each family. Even if families share the same race, religion and orientation, they can still be very different from one another. So, the downfall of that is you have to really be on your toes and not assume anything. You have understand that some parents won't always be on the same page and may be resistant to some things about their child.

Jessica Coulson

1/8/2017 01:40:23 pm

Addressing behavior problems or differences in development with families I think is the hardest part, no one wants to hear anything wayward about their child and it is difficult to tell someone in way that stresses the seriousness but does not sound judgmental.

It is very rewarding when parent's acknowledge and thank you for your individualized care and concern for their child and you can feel like you are on the same team with them.

Sarah Allen

1/11/2017 09:34:33 pm

One of the most challenging parts of working with families is when you are forced to take blame from them or when they are worried or sad about a challenge that their child is having. The most rewarding part of working with families is when they see how the changes that are being implemented at home and school are helping their child as a result of cooperative solutions.

Maria Alvestad-Ereth

1/16/2017 07:45:43 pm

When it comes to talking to parents, I think one of the most difficult things is when the family encourages or perpetuates harmful behaviors at home without realizing the consequences of normalizing that behavior in children who then share it with other children at daycare centers (examples would be "play hitting", using toy guns or pretending to shoot, calling people names in jest).
One of the best things is the opportunity to share personal details about each child's day with their parents, such as little things we as caretakers noticed, like a child being kind to babies, or learning a new word, or reaching out to include other children in play.

Danielle Newsome

1/19/2017 05:02:33 pm

Share one of the most challenging parts of working with families, and one of the best parts.
It's challenging to always communicate in a way that it doesn't come off wrong. You always need to make sure your wording things correctly in the hopes not to insult them. A reward would be that you can help work together for the child and that's good for the child

Bailey Duenas

1/20/2017 04:54:58 pm

One of the most challenging parts of working with families is that every set of parents is different and each have different expectations for their child

One of the best parts of working with families is seeing how happy they are to hear about their child's progress and how they are doing.

Joshua Martindale

1/24/2017 10:21:26 am

One of the best parts about working with families is see how they and the care facilities can come together to better help the child develop. Once there is trust between the two parties, it is amazing what mountains can be moved for a child's health and development.

One of the most challenging parts of working with families is building the trust with the family members in order to invoke positive experiences and changes for the child to have a best developmental outcome. They may have different ideas other than your own and may not look to you as the authority figure on child development.

Rachel

1/24/2017 10:26:22 pm

One of the most challenging parts about working with families is when they have strong opinions about how other children should or should not treat their child. All children react differently to each other and the best any teacher can do is inspire kindness and keep a safe environment.

The best thing about working with families is getting to tell them about a significant milestone their child has reached or just anything wonderful their child did that day.

sarah garnett

1/25/2017 12:07:53 pm

Sharing child's weaknesses is a challenging and speaking about the child's strengths is a highlight

Lizz F.

1/30/2017 12:33:34 pm

The hardest is just knowing what is going to be appropriate/acceptable activities or behaviors child to child, family to family
The best is having the parents share how much the kids enjoy working with you personally, and how they really value your time/efforts put into the program

Andrea Ofiara

2/6/2017 02:49:48 pm

From experience one of the most challenging parts of working with a family is them not working with you to help their child. Weather its behavioral or academic not having the help from the parents makes it a lot more challenging to help them child and also makes it harder for the child to get the consistent help that they need. One of the best parts from working with families is the relationship that you build with them to helping their child. It makes it very easy for me and for the child to see that there is such positive interactions between the teacher and the parent resulting in everything being much more positive and helpful.

khadijah

2/9/2017 11:09:27 am

One of the most challenging parts about working with the families would have to be communicating without seeming to be all in their home lifestyle, maybe the rules at the daycare are different than certain rules at home so trying to find a common ground maybe easier then finding out how to discipline the child for wrongful actions or words being said. However talking more and more about the family and child and daily routines on weekends or days they are not here at the facility seems to warm up families and make the connection easy for me to learn more about the family and the child.

Rukiya Elmi

2/9/2017 04:35:06 pm

I think that communication and really passing through that "iam ok" or you don,t understand" part is the most challenging situations.
families are not the same and each one of us we value our family traditions and care so as daycare worker or teacher etc.. we need to put aside everything we know and open to all ideas
families need to also be willing and open and if its not then provide more strong communication skills and empathy.

james murphy

2/18/2017 07:26:18 am

It is challenging to talk to parents about behavioral issues their child is having. It is rewarding to let parents know about milestones and accomplishments their child has met.

Karly Schroder

3/3/2017 08:51:22 pm

One of the most rewarding things I have experienced in every childcare situation I've been in, is when the families trust you so deeply to take care of their children. They end up partnering with you on how to go about a situation, rather than telling you how it should be done. Sometimes it can take a long time to get to this point with families, and other times it is a perfect fit right away.

One of the challenging things about working with children is communicating not so positive and happy things with the parents. When something happened with the child at 10 am and you had to write an incident report and tell them when they picked up their child at 6, its hard to remember to keep the conversation still mostly positive, because the child doesn't need to be re-reprimanded for something that happened 8 hours ago. But you have to keep the communication open with the parents. So this can be a balancing act!

Queshawna Anderson

3/23/2017 10:11:56 pm

One of the hardest things can be working with parents who don't want to be involved in their child's school or are closed off to communication. The best part is seeing child be successful and progress through programs.

Andrea Estola

3/27/2017 12:57:59 am

As a float at a preschool I dot always talk to all of the children's parents. I would think having those difficult conversations with them about their children's behavior and possible things that could be going on at home that contribute to it would be the hardest part, or if parents got defensive about their kids and didn't accept they may be having trouble in some areas. My favorite part is that we usually both have the best interest of the kid at heart, and it's exciting to talk to them about the progress their child is making.

Megan Rockstad

4/10/2017 06:20:19 pm

One of the most challenging parts i would say is trying to find a way to communicate with them about a potential learning problem we have observed. think the best part of communicating with parents is the relationship you build and even potential friendships.

Jane Minifie

4/11/2017 03:43:18 pm

One of the most challenging things about working with a family is finding the time to speak with them; both pick up and drop off are really busy times and parents sometimes try to start a conversation when we don't have the time.
One of the most rewarding things about working with families is sharing in the joy of their child's' achievements.

Heather

4/20/2017 03:10:11 pm

In my past the hardest part would be... Trying to get some families to work with you. I had one family in particular that did not have any rules at home and just expected the child to go to school and be turned into this perfectly behaved child overnight. When myself and the rest of the staff would try to talk to them they would just brush us off.

tierra

5/2/2017 10:45:12 pm

never had any problems besides them loving me

Cassie Chao

5/31/2017 08:12:24 pm

Hardest: is trying to help child become more stronger in a area that the parent wants you to do at school but isnt being constant with it at home so it goes no where.
Best: Is seeing the Joy from the parents when they drop their kids off and tells me what they told them we learned at school.

Megan White

6/3/2017 03:18:32 pm

One of the most challenging parts of working with families is getting to a comfortable level with them to talk to them about their child's day and what your concerns are. One of the best parts of working with children's families is getting to a level of comfortableness that you can tell them funny little things that their child did throughout the day.

Ayita Berhane

8/4/2017 06:48:51 pm

One of the most challenging parts of working with families is working through hard times the child and the family may be having. A person's family and how they raise their children is very personal. One of the best parts is being able to work with families in order to support their children and knowing that there is a trusting relationship between the caregivers and the parents.

Brittany

8/17/2017 11:40:03 am

One of the most challenging parts of working with the families in the classroom is when a parent shows no interest in working with a child at home on any issues they are having with bad behaviors or meeting developmental milestones. The best part of working with families is when a family is eager to be involved in their child's development and you can set and reach goals a a team.

rachel illeene wieland

10/26/2017 02:07:59 pm

One of the most challenging parts would have to be the uncomfortable part in explaining to the parent why the said child isnt furthering in development. And the most rewarding would be watching the child grow with the families.

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