As I read the description of your master program on social work, I realized that becoming a social worker could help me to understand better and work with parents, their children, and the systems established for them. For many years, I focused only in the children from an early educator’s perspective. To give am example, my weekly goals were focused in what young students would learn. As a part of my duties, I planned activities that involved a wide range of developmental skills. But also, as an early childhood educator I had to deal with the other side of the child, the parent. Sometimes this relationship became a friendly partnership, other times an unknown barrier would be lift (without animosity) between me and the parent. Those occasions …show more content…
I had to report twice in a school year to child protective services Isabella’s claims. I must mention David was an aggressive child, he would hit the smaller children in the classroom. Talking to him one day I found that his father shoot at him with a fake gun with rubber bullets and hit his foot. But not all were histories of parents doing something wrong. Emily’s mom would wait at the end of the end to talk to me about her daughter and other topics. “How do I enroll her in school?” “Should I chose for her a bilingual program or an English second language program? Salvador’s parents were concern about his speech, I was too, in cases like this one, time is a priority to consider, so I sent them with the family worker. Many times I asked myself “How can I help this parent?” And the answer was always to send them to the social worker, or the family specialist, or the school director. On those occasions, I wished I had the tools and knowledge to help the parent/family. Being an early childhood educator does not requires higher education in most states, even though we encounter many times occasions where children and their families need professional help from a social worker or a family