Creating a Safe Environment: 2 or 4 Year Old Children

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Providing a healthy indoor and outdoor learning environment is a top priority in today’s society for all preschool teachers worldwide and very important for parents of young children, two to four years old as well. For this reason, when parents enroll their children in any type of early learning school program, they are expecting to have the best teachers who will protect and watch over their children while in their care, which all, will help benefit their child’s well-being in one way or another. Most parents want the classrooms, indoor and outdoor equipments and toys that their children engage in play with are safe and in the best condition for their individual use, that the child day care learning centers learning environments, in general, are clean from top to bottom, and most importantly, the food that is planned weekly and served to their children, daily, are healthy, nutritious and safe for them to eat. With all this said, such expectations require again, all preschool teachers, worldwide, to be very well educated, trained and informed on how to create safe learning environments that protects and promote children’s safety, nutrition and health.
“Health, Safety, and Nutrition are interrelated and dependent on one another due to the status of each, health, safety, and nutrition, having a direct effect on the quality of the others,” (Marotz, 2015, p. 8); in other words, all, are key factors for parents to consider when planning to add a new addition or child to the family. For this reason, parents have to make sure the child will be raised with proper nutritional food and beverages, proper techniques to maintaining good health and taught safety hazards; which if taught properly, will allow the child to both develop and grow ...

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Health.gov. (2015). Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2015. Retrieved from http://www.health.gov/dietaryguidelines/2015.asp

Marotz, L. (2015). Health, Safety, and Nutrition for the Young Child [VitalSouce bookshelf version]. (p. 8). Retrieved from http://online.vitalsource.com/books/9781133890058/id/P251

Marotz, L. (2015). Health, Safety, and Nutrition for the Young Child [VitalSouce bookshelf version]. (p. 17). Retrieved from http://online.vitalsource.com/books/9781133890058/id/P384

Marotz, L. (2015). Health, Safety, and Nutrition for the Young Child [VitalSouce bookshelf version]. (p. 129). Retrieved from http://online.vitalsource.com/books/9781133890058/id/P2251

Marotz, L. (2015). Health, Safety, and Nutrition for the Young Child [VitalSouce bookshelf version]. (p. 184). Retrieved from http://online.vitalsource.com/books/9781133890058/id/P3266

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