Current through August, 2024
There shall be a provider or a responsible adult,
designated by the provider, supervising the children at all times. The provider
or responsible adult shall always be within sight or hearing distance to
provide for the needs of the children and to respond to an emergency. The
program shall also provide an environment and experiences which are aimed at
promoting the individual child's physical, intellectual, emotional, and social
well-being and growth. This shall be done in the following ways:
(1) Activities that promote physical
development shall include:
(A) Daily
opportunities for running, climbing, and other vigorous and varied physical
activities; and
(B) Opportunities
for children to learn about the health, development, and care of the children's
bodies, including exercise, nutrition, and hygiene;
(2) Programs to promote intellectual
development shall:
(A) Provide that a variety
of learning materials are introduced and are available to the children;
and
(B) Include first-hand
experiences for children to learn about the world; and
(3) Programs to promote emotional development
shall provide that:
(A) There are
opportunities for individual self-expression;
(B) Each child is recognized as an
individual;
(C) The child is
afforded constructive guidance and the setting of clear-cut limits which foster
the child's own ability to be self-disciplined;
(D) Each child's personal privacy is
respected;
(E) Providers shall not
use:
(i) Physical punishment, abuse, or harm
including but not limited to spanking, pinching, slapping, or shaking;
or
(ii) Methods of influencing
behavior which are frightening, humiliating, injurious, neglectful, or damaging
to the child's health or self-esteem; and
(F) Providers shall respect each child's cultural,
ethnic, and family background, as well as the child's primary language or
dialect;
(4) Programs to
promote social development shall provide that:
(A) Children are guided in learning to get
along with each other;
(B)
Providers interact with children in ways which promote mutual respect between
adults and children; and
(C)
Providers behave in ways which help the children develop attitudes of respect
for all other persons as individuals and develop an appreciation of ethnic and
cultural diversity;
(5)
The activities and experiences provided by the program shall be appropriate to
the developmental level of the children;
(6) The program shall encourage the
development of the children's special interests and abilities;
(7) The program shall provide a balance of
active and quiet activities; and
(8) The program shall provide for the self
direction of the children by:
(A) Affording
children opportunities to choose activities according to personal desires and
interests and to move from one activity to another;
(B) Encouraging children to do things
independently; and
(C) Providing
children opportunities to be involved in decision making about group and
individual activities.
