When I think of a positive result of research, I think about
a time last year while I was teaching preschool. There was a child in my class that was of the
Hispanic culture. He was four years old. Every day at lunch time he would just sit
there and not eat his food. I was not
sure why he was acting this way. I
thought maybe it was because he didn’t like the meals at school. Maybe he was just a picky eater? One day I picked up a fork and put some food
on it. He opened his mouth and took a
bite. This made me want to do some
research on his culture. I found out
that in his culture, the caregivers help the children with self-help skills
such as eating, longer than what we do in the United States. I spoke to the parents about working with
their child to teach him to feed himself so that he would be able to keep up
with the other children. The parents
were very accepting of my idea and also worked on these skills at home.
Hi,
ReplyDeleteLuckily for him you decided to use wisdom and tried to figure out what was going on instead of just assuming he was not hungry. I am Puerto Rican and can say based on my experience your research is correct especially among male children. I recently had a conversation with my grandmother regarding my niece’s self-help skills. My niece will begin preschool in September and cannot/will not feed herself. I constantly remind her she will need these skills in school as help will be limited once she starts school.