Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 8/24/2002 8:24:00 PM Author: scott (wildturkey@git.com) Subject: howdy craig im from perth and work in ... howdy craig im from perth and work in childcare i have been doing it for about 4 years. i have had some negative and positive responses to me working in childcare. some of the relief staff we have had in the centre have been very against me working in the centre, but they were never called back again. the staff i worked with were a little unsure when i first started working there but now everyone is cool about it. we have had a few parents that have been very against me but my boss has backed me up and told them to take there children and leave the centre and dont come back. some of the parents are glad there is a male in the centre as some children dont have a dad , so i become their rolemodel, or just a bmale for them to be with. some of the children have never been able to kick a footy but their parents are grateful that i was there to teach them how to kick it. some of the staffget annoyed because they need to speak to a parent but the parent walks straight past them and comes to speak to me. the staff just tell me what they need to tell them and i tell them. i still have some parents thta wont speak to me very much. but the way i see is they are simple minded people who see the world one way, and dont wont it changed, but they are usually the people who complain about equal rights. in a country (i think its chilli) a third of childcare workers have to be male. i still get comments from people when i go out and meet them about my job, but then i ask them what they do and a majority of the time they say maccas or there a checkout chik ,so my response is get a real job then critise me. i think more males should be in childcare and that it should advertised that its a good thing and that more are needed, to influence the children that need a male role model. its good to see somebody is doing something about it, go for it mate. scott Name: Email: Subject

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