Children are different from one another, and each has different needs, rhythms, etc.
Children are not small adults. Preschool teachers needs to relate to them according to their stages of development
Children learn through experience and need to have the opportunity to repeat the same experience in different ways
Evidences indicated that center-based child care can have harmful effects on children’s socioemional development and their mental health. Children’s ability to recover from difficult circumstances is influenced by the quality of their attachments.
Children are placed in orphanages where they are exposed for inadequate child-caregiver relationships and unhealthy socioemotional problems (Berument, 2013).
Studies indicated that most orphanages are characterized by lack of emphasis for positive child-caregiver relationship and secure attachment, lack of adequate education or training and lack of attention for child rights (Johnstone & Gibbs, 2012).
Engle (2008) stated causes for orphan children living in institutions of Sub-Sahara Africa to be extreme poverty, conflict, war, famine, disease and HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Bowlby in 1969/1982 indicated children have a biological predisposition to seek out their caregivers for protection from danger.
“If our hopes of building a better and safer world are to become more than wishful thinking, we will need the engagement of volunteers more than ever.”