Child Care - Module 3

  Keeping children safe, warm, and clean is providing:

• Emotional need

• Guidance needs

• Physical needs

• Social needs

Keeping children calm, giving praise, and attention provides:

•   Emotional needs

• Guidance needs

• Physical needs

• Social needs

Using directive statements, providing learning activities, and giving discipline with love are examples of:

• Emotional needs

• Guidance needs

• Physical needs

• Social needs

Diverting the child’s attention is an example of:

•  Corrective statement

• Discipline technique

• Emotional need

• Guidance needs

 

One way to help prevent accidents with children is to:

• Tell he child what not to do and leave it up to them to remember.

•   Set guidelines that include safety precautions when you start a new activity

•   Set guidelines that includes that include safety precautions after an accident occurs.

• None of the above

The following are safety hazard for young children, EXCEPT:

•    A bottle of baby aspirin on the counter

•   A floor free of litter or toys

•   A pan handle turned toward the center of the stove.

•    Cupboard doors that fasten securely.

  Safety is of ______ importance when caring for children.

•   Little

• Maximum

•    No

• Some

 

  It is  ______ to take any risks with children.

•   better

• Better not

•    Okay

• Not okay

  Corrective statements tell the children

• What to do

• What not to do

You are baby-sitting a 2-year-old who is just learning to go up and down the stairs and insists on practicing his new found skills. There are a number of items on the stairs that need to be taken to the basement, but you don’t know where the belong. You should:

•   Look all around the basement and try to find where the items belong

•   Leave the items on the stairs until the parents get home.

• Take the items downstairs and put them together in a safe, obvious place.

•   Not let the child practice going up and down the stairs under your supervision.