two year olds

Guest · 2015-11-17T23:17:00+0000

I am working with two year olds and am really really struggling ... I have never felt so anxious and frustrated ever!! I feel such a failure. Basically transitions and routines in general are one challenge but also dealing with the copy cat screaming, running away, banging cups, and plain ignoring anything I say that sends the room into total chaos in seconds and no matter how many times I try to distract first then have to say no, stop or resort to moving children away, taking away cups...feeling increasingly out of control myself (which I know doesn't help!) ...I feel such a failure there are three staff in the room which on paper is correct (minimum) for the amount of children we have but layout and organisation means staff have to leave the room to change children as toilets / potties are not in the room...meals have to be collected from across the nursery and as theres limited storage staff leave to collect / refresh resources from other rooms. Getting children ready for going out is the bane of my life -we are not able to have direct access to outdoors, must go via other rooms so I cant get one ready and let them go out to play while I do the others... each KP has to control, keep an eye on four children while trying to put on their wellies, coats, waterproofs... and the children rarely cooperate with this! Nappies - KP takes up to four of their children to the bathroom and so has to keep an eye on a couple of others at the same time as doing a nappy...and of course im in the middle of one and a child decides to go walk about...I call them..they ignore...I have the take the child off the mat..go after the other child...and then start again. Also taking children to the potty takes a staff member out of the room so children have to be hurried up and there is no time any of the learning that could be achieved if routines were simpler and more relaxed. Im not having a great time, feel hassled and rushed all day and I don't feel the children can really feel any better ...although Ive tried hard to relax things for them I feel like I have to keep up with other staff - more often than not I feel like the children are sheep being herded rather than children being nurtured and supported I feel they are missing out on so much Id like to put in place but the way it is at the moment change is seeming an impossible task as theres so many obstacles in the way that simply cannot be changed (like the location of the play area, the toilets etc) Does anyone have any suggestions / tried and tested strategies for these issues??? or working with a roomful of this age group in general. My gut tells me there are simply not enough staff...but that's not likely to be fixed anytime soon.

By Guest
November 17, 2015 in All Early Years settings & Childminders: General Issues

https://beta.eyfs.info/forums/topic/45175-two-year-olds/

Followers 0

Recommended Posts

[[Template forums/front/topics/postContainer is throwing an error. This theme may be out of date. Run the support tool in the AdminCP to restore the default theme.]] [[Template forums/front/topics/postContainer is throwing an error. This theme may be out of date. Run the support tool in the AdminCP to restore the default theme.]] [[Template forums/front/topics/postContainer is throwing an error. This theme may be out of date. Run the support tool in the AdminCP to restore the default theme.]] [[Template forums/front/topics/postContainer is throwing an error. This theme may be out of date. Run the support tool in the AdminCP to restore the default theme.]] [[Template forums/front/topics/postContainer is throwing an error. This theme may be out of date. Run the support tool in the AdminCP to restore the default theme.]] [[Template forums/front/topics/postContainer is throwing an error. This theme may be out of date. Run the support tool in the AdminCP to restore the default theme.]]

https://beta.eyfs.info/forums/topic/45175-two-year-olds/

Followers 0

Go to topic listing

Sign In

two year olds

Recommended Posts

Browse

Activity

My Activity Streams

Support

Store