Rules
At the nursery your child learns a part of the most important lessons for life. You will find rules like: “Share your toys.” “Be honest.” “Keep your hand and feet where you should.” “Put back in their place the things you worked with.” “Clean up.”
For your child, the nursery is the first step towards independency outside the home environment. Here, your child has the first individual and group contacts. In this environment, your child is setting the pattern for their current and future cognitive development.
At “Happy Kids”, we try to make this experience both comfortable and successful for each child. We provide a warm, safe and pleasant environment, organized and monitored by teachers with experience in modern teaching-learning strategies.
Discipline
Our role, the teachers’ role, is to facilitate learning by creating an environment that offers your child the opportunity to have direct contact with the world around us. This environment will include both structured didactic activities and free play at activity centers. We wish for each child to feel comfortable and safe at the nursery. We try to create an interesting environment, in which the child feels appreciated and praised for his efforts.
There are a few limits that cannot be broken during the activities. Children learn from models, from the natural and logic consequences of their actions and from “time-out”. We believe that the learning process is optimum when there are clear rules and consequences for inadequate behavior. The children must learn to monitor their own behavior, to make the right decision. The rewards and the appreciation of their efforts are designed to create a warm and friendly environment.
At the “Happy Kids” nursery physical punishment is forbidden.
We focus on the positive reinforcement of adequate behavior; the child is verbally encouraged, is appreciated and receives rewards, certificates; the child is given the possibility to choose a favorite activity/ game, etc.
