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Guidance

The basis of the guidance and discipline policy at the center is to encourage positive behavior and to facilitate empathic social learning. Since children generally desire positive attention from the adults around them, negative behavior is greatly diminished when those adults provide a supportive, nurturing environment.

The staff provides a safe, hazard free setting with careful supervision. The center's daily scheduling, curriculum plans, room arrangements and staffing patterns are designed to promote positive and enjoyable learning experiences, including respectful and trusting relationships between adults and children. Consistency and an understanding of the daily routine along with positive behavior, redirecting children and setting clear limits are the basis for facilitating self-control in children.

All children are encouraged to "use words" to express what they want, what they need, and how they feel. When age-appropriate, it is the staff's role to facilitate verbal problem solving among children in conflict. Appropriate and positive behaviors are continually reinforced. The staff's response to inappropriate or negative behavior may include: ignoring behavior, discussing the situation with the child, redirecting the child's activity, and/or using firm, clear and concise language to instruct the child as to a more positive way to express her/himself.

We are committed to promoting healthy relationships and a safe learning environment. To this end, threats of harm to self or others, threatening verbal or physical behavior or acts of violence, shall not be tolerated at the center. The center reserves the right to discontinue the enrollment of any child that fails to follow this policy.

As a general rule, toys from home are prohibited from the center.