Our Policies
Guidance & Discipline
Our goal at "Holly's High Hopes" is to help children build as individuals by challenging their emotional, social, physical, and cognitive development, in a safe and secure atmosphere. Children will learn to build confidence within themselves through interactions with peers and teachers.
At "Holly's High Hopes" we, as caregivers, will strive to provide a fun, loving, and caring environment for all those under our care. We will follow specific strategies and techniques to help us better respond to the children's behaviour. We will use both prevention and intervention strategies and techniques. We feel that the following strategies and techniques best support our guidance policy:
Prevention
- Establish clear, consistent, and simple limits
- Focus on the behaviour, rather than on the child
- Provide choices
Intervention
- Acknowledge feeling before setting limits
- Model problem-solving skills
As a licensed childcare centre, we are obligated to follow the "Child Care Licensing Regulations" (CCLR). As stated in the CCLR, section 52(1) (a.-f.) Harmful actions not permitted.
The Licensee must ensure that a child, while under the care or supervision of the licensee, is not subjected to any of the following:
- shoving, hitting or shaking by an employee or another child, or confinement or physical restraint by another child;
- confinement or physical restraint by an employee, expect as authorized in a child care's plan if the care plan includes instruction respecting behavioural guidance;
- harsh, belittling or degrading treatment by an employee or another child, whether verbal, emotional or physical, that could humiliate the child or undermine the child's self respect;
- spanking or any other form of corporal punishment;
- separation, without supervision by a responsible adult, from other children;
- as a form of punishment, deprivation of meals, snacks, rest or necessary use of a toilet.