Positive Relationships With Children Essay

Positive relationships with children and young people are important in many different ways. When a positive relationship is built with you, the practitioner, the child begins to trust you. When the child has a good relationship with the practitioner, it will boost the child’s self-esteem and self confidence. The children can make positive relationships with any practitioner, however you tend to find the child will make a bond with its key person. In my room (the baby unit) before the child starts, the child isn’t allocated to a key person; we wait to see who the child bonds with out of the members of staff in the room. We would then build this positive relationship by the key person collecting the child off the parent in the morning, in some …show more content…
The more they trust you, the more they want to talk to you and share their experiences and stories with you. It can also be important to the practitioner so they can plan next steps/goals more accurately for the child as they understand the child’s developmental needs and know their interests well. It also helps the practitioners to be able to respond to children more effectively because they can recognise their expressions and emotions.
A positive relationship with a child can be built and maintained in many different ways depending on their age specifically. An example of this would be to build a positive relationship with a baby, physical contact is extremely important to them. When the child is upset, the practitioner would be the one to comfort the child by giving them a cuddle or if they have done something really good, again giving them a cuddle or getting them excited by tickling them. However with children who are slightly older, to build and maintain a relationship with them, you would take a different approach. You would talk to the child more in an excited/interested tone and you would play with them. If they are playing on their own, you would build a positive relationship