Question

What would you do? So....you're a teacher in a preschool classroom. We'll say that the children are three and four years old. All of them are typically developing and toilet-trained (well, you know, the occasional accident). It's expected that the children feed themselves, put on their own jackets, and help with classroom clean-up such as picking up toys. One child, though, is from a family whose culture values interdependence rather than independence. Her mother feeds, dresses, and cleans up after her to demonstrate her love and involvement with the child. In your classroom at meal time, the child sits at the table and stares at the food because she has never fed herself. When getting ready to go outside, she stands next her jacket hanging in her cubby because she has never dressed herself. At clean up time, she points to the toys on the floor because she has never cleaned up after herself. How would you, in a respectful and supportive way, negotiate an interdependence vs. independence orientation with the child's mother regarding self-help skills?

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I will personally meet the child's mother and explain her politely about her child's behavior in the classroom and will try to show her how ideally it must be ( if possible). Then I will tell her about the consequences if she does not let her child do things by herself , she could become interderpendent on others all her life. I Will very politely tell her that if she is not been given training to do things now , she will not be able to make it big in the future for hersef. She will always have to depend on others and take their help , for smaller things to achieve , and that is obviously not the right thing.

I will try to know the reason behind her such a attachment and will try to help her out in training her child.