Unit 8.1 DB: Building Trusting Relationships to Help Children Thrive
In your posts, reference resources and strategies that you learned about in the Unit 8 readings and resources.
In your initial post, use the No Small Matter documentary to describe two essential factors that children need from families and early childhood educators to help them thrive? As a current or aspiring early childhood professional, what strategies will you use to establish a trusting relationship with families to help support their childrens growth and development? How do these strategies build trust?
https://post.kanopy.com/video/no-small-matter
“NO SMALL MATTER” is the first feature documentary to explore the most overlooked, underestimated, and powerful force for good in America today: early childhood education. Through poignant stories and surprising humor, the film lays out the overwhelming evidence for the importance of the first five years, and reveals how our failure to act on that evidence has resulted in an everyday crisis for American families, and a slow-motion catastrophe for the country.
