Reflection On Volunteering At Stepping Stones Daycare Center

For my volunteering hours, I decided to volunteer at Stepping Stones Daycare Center. While volunteering at Stepping Stones, I was able to observes the developmental stages that the children all around me are apart of. Inside, there were different classroom settings for each age group of children ranging from infantry to the age of 4. I was able to experience what each of these age groups were like and viewed the various stages that each child experiences. The infants were the easiest to take care of in my opinion. My day mainly consisted of feeding, changing their diaper, and attending to them while they nap. The babies needed to be fed every 2-3 hours constantly, and they required a lot of attention. At times, I found myself getting bored because there wasn’t much that I could do with the infants. …show more content…
These children were a bit a different than the infants because they were able to do a little more than what the infants could. The children were able to play with toys, they were learning to walk and talk, and their senses were starting to bloom. Like the infants, the 1-2 years olds did need to be put down for naps, but not as constant. The energy that they had was through the roof, and they wanted to play with everything that they could get their hands on. I practically had to have some type of activity for them to do so that I could have their attention. One thing that I did notice was that the 1-2 years olds were only slightly more developed than the infants, but were more aware of their surroundings and the people in their