When we talk about offering rights-based learning and care in the baby room, it can sound like a lofty ideal—something perhaps more suited to older children who can express themselves clearly and independently. But in truth, this approach starts from birth. Babies, just like adults, are full human beings with the right to make choices,Continue reading “Supporting Self-Determination in the Baby Room”
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Making Art with Babies: A Joyful and Developmentally Appropriate Approach
Making art with babies can be a joyful, affirming experience – for them and for us. But too often, art activities with babies are designed from an adult perspective: they’re product-focused, too structured, and developmentally inappropriate. Instead of offering genuine creative exploration, these activities often prioritise producing physical products that will make parents smile –Continue reading “Making Art with Babies: A Joyful and Developmentally Appropriate Approach”
Babies’ self-determination and agency: thinking about touch and affection in the baby room
You’ll know from previous blogposts, that I’m particularly interested at the moment in how babies show self-determination and agency – how they make choices for themselves and how they make things happen in the world around them. I wonder how this focus on self-determination and agency might change the way we see touch and affectionContinue reading “Babies’ self-determination and agency: thinking about touch and affection in the baby room”
Babies’ self-determination and agency
What does it mean to provide ‘rights-based learning and care’ in the baby room? What makes anything ‘rights-based’? Children’s rights go hand in hand with thinking about children as having self-determination and agency. Let’s break these two terms down and think about what they might mean in the baby room. Self-determination is being able toContinue reading “Babies’ self-determination and agency”
Why do we need to think about rights in the baby room?
I’ve been designing materials for the course ‘Respecting the Rights of Babies: Rights-based learning and care in the baby room’, which starts on Wednesday 22nd November at 11.30am. I thought it might be interesting to explain why I wanted to focus professional learning around rights in the baby room. Where did the motivation for thisContinue reading “Why do we need to think about rights in the baby room?”