When you are operating a day care, you may spend time with the same children day in day out for as long as 6-8 hours a day. And while all you are required to do it deliver them to their parents that night safe and relatively happy to have been successful, when you think of how long you have access to those young minds, why not use the activities you plan to help them learn strong values as well as have fun?
Aside for the altruistic reasons for helping young people become better persons, there are some real benefits to teaching good social skills and strong ethics and values in your
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citizens in the social and play times you plan for them. The extent to which a child learns to behave in an ethical and virtuous way at a young age will not only effect them throughout their life, it will change how they behave in day care.
Children are profoundly selfish creatures. Actually we all are that way but children are more direct and uncensored in focusing on their own wants. Those instincts lead to a lot of the conflicts and fights you have to break up all day long. So if the children learn to treat each other with respect as a value and they learn to live in an ethical manner, then their lives together at day care will be much more peaceful which makes for a better experience for day care workers as well. Thus that moment comes when little James wants to and can steal little Ruth’s cookies, if he chooses not to because you taught James some values, he is a better person, you have a more peaceful day care and Ruth gets to keep her cookie.