Be the voice for children 🤍

For all new early childhood professionals, I have this message for you! After living all kinds of experiences of knowledge, today you reached one more step in your professional education.  When you began several years ago, you thought about your goals and desires and how you were going to contribute to the early childhood field, children, families, and colleagues.

In the last decades, we saw radical changes in kindergarten classrooms. Classroom activities are focusing more on literacy and math than learning through play, exploration, body movements, and using their imagination. This results in children linked in an early childhood curriculum far from supporting their healthy development, adding an increment of academic pressure and stress.

All people can point to adults who influenced and brought joy (or sorrow) to their lives as children. We remember that person who connected with us by giving us some advice, a toy, playing games, or satisfying our needs, emotionally and physically, accepting and respecting who we were just to make us happy.

Respect for cultural diversity is pointed out internationally and nationally as a basic requirement of professional practice in early childhood education (ECE). Early childhood educators require to be intercultural competent because of the changing demographics and diversity in our countries and for the possibilities of growing professionally in other jobs and roles in the early childhood field in other countries.