Caregivers: Relationship Between Infants And Children

Caregivers who work at a center develop different routines for infants and toddlers. The routines start since children arrive at the center until they leave it. The greeting in the morning establishes the relation between the caregivers and children. The routines increase the interaction between caregivers and infants and toddlers, as long as, caregivers speak with children. Moreover, it is an essential part that caregivers speak with a clear and normal voice without changing it when caregivers speak with children. Caregivers are the example to children start development their language and understand what caregivers make when caregivers change their diapers or feeding them. Also, caregivers initiate a near relationship with children where children
The first is feeding where caregivers make sure infants and toddlers receive the adequate and right foods that help them in their growth and development. For example, “Feeding includes providing for breast-feeding mothers, bottle feeding, spoon feeding, and eventually self-feeding” (p 70). These examples give the idea how children go step by step during they grow up since children are in the center. Caregivers know that feeding is important, and this is the reason they provide the best to children. Second is diapering when caregivers change children’s diapers but on a special place where everything is set up for change diapers and prevent contamination. Then, “Diapering should be done in such a way that the baby is a partner in the process and learns to cooperate with the caregiving instead of being distracted with a toy” (p 70). In fact, it is significant that caregivers speak with the child when they change the diapers to avoid crying or no cooperation by children. Some children do not like to change their diapers, and this brings some conflicts between the caregivers and children. Third is toilet training and toilet learning, but these two things differ between them. However, both have the same objective to children leave the diapers. The difference between is that “Toilet learning is developmentally appropriate and happens when the child is ready. Toilet training is often culturally appropriate and can occur much earlier than toilet learning” (p 70). Definitely, toilet training is more used in Latin cultures because parents consider that children are ready to leave the diapers. Then, parents start the training when children are one-year-old. One example, I began to train my daughters when both were one year old. It was not an easy job because they were not ready to leave the diapers, and it took a lot of time. In the other hand, I left my son in the