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Unit 1: Getting Started Control works for the moment but
What is the best approach for supporting children?
What is The Empowerment Approach?
it doesn’t educate for the future.

WHAT WE KNOW / UNDERSTAND PICTURE PROMPTS

▪ Controlling children through rewards and punishments

may work well in the short-term but it does not help
work out why they are struggling in the first place –

the unmet needs and missing skills.

▪ Beware of doing too much for a child and ‘fixing’ things

for the moment. This stops the child problem-solving

for themselves and practising skills; it also gives them

the message that they are not capable of doing things
without you which can lead to helplessness.

▪ You may need to do more to help a child at the start

but always plan a Pathway to Independence so there is

a plan for them to manage on their own in the end.

▪ Caring and educating children takes lots of skills – from

the resilience of a fitness instructor to the patience of a

paramedic and the precision of a surgeon.