Reflection
Reflective Account
I have been working at ... for about a month now, I have made great relationships with the children in my class. I noticed the one girl in particular has become quite attached to myself. Another member of staff explained to me that she has quite severe attachment issues because of her home life. She explained that I should not allow this child to be so attached to myself, as she will always rather be with adults, that I should encourage her to play with other children in her class. I found this quite difficult trying to distance myself, whenever I was working with other children this young girl would always want to join in or just have a chat with me. It was very difficult for me to have to tell her that she needed to play with the other children. I know the young girl had defiantly picked up on my different behaviour with her and this distressed me quite a bit.
After having a few says to think about the situation, and when I came back to the setting I tried a theory out. On break time the young girl would usually stand next to me and not play. So I suggested that me, her and a group of children from the class should all play a game together. This seemed to work quite well, as she would happily interact with children as long as I was with her. I continued this for a few weeks and I noticed some change.
The young girl now started to interact with children by herself. During lesson time only occasionally would she just stand and chat to me, most of the time she was instigating games of her own to play with her class mates and she seemed satisfied with the time that she got spend with me during reading. At break again she no longer just stands next to me refusing to play, instead she interacting with the majority of the children in the play ground.
In the future if this situation or similar was ever to arise again I would, instead of trying to distance myself from the child which distressed myself and confused the little girl, I
I have been working at ... for about a month now, I have made great relationships with the children in my class. I noticed the one girl in particular has become quite attached to myself. Another member of staff explained to me that she has quite severe attachment issues because of her home life. She explained that I should not allow this child to be so attached to myself, as she will always rather be with adults, that I should encourage her to play with other children in her class. I found this quite difficult trying to distance myself, whenever I was working with other children this young girl would always want to join in or just have a chat with me. It was very difficult for me to have to tell her that she needed to play with the other children. I know the young girl had defiantly picked up on my different behaviour with her and this distressed me quite a bit.
After having a few says to think about the situation, and when I came back to the setting I tried a theory out. On break time the young girl would usually stand next to me and not play. So I suggested that me, her and a group of children from the class should all play a game together. This seemed to work quite well, as she would happily interact with children as long as I was with her. I continued this for a few weeks and I noticed some change.
The young girl now started to interact with children by herself. During lesson time only occasionally would she just stand and chat to me, most of the time she was instigating games of her own to play with her class mates and she seemed satisfied with the time that she got spend with me during reading. At break again she no longer just stands next to me refusing to play, instead she interacting with the majority of the children in the play ground.
In the future if this situation or similar was ever to arise again I would, instead of trying to distance myself from the child which distressed myself and confused the little girl, I