Children With Multicultural And Diverse Experiences

Introduction Early childhood providers do many difficult tasks. The hardest task is to provide the children with multicultural and diverse experiences. Since the beginning of time, the extended families, clans, and the communities raised the young children. Even today, many early childhood programs and family child care institutions tend to be similar and homogeneous to the children’s home backgrounds. The common criteria parents use to choose the early childhood programs, and the child care facilities are programs and providers who match the parents’ view of discipline and education and prefer teachers who speak a similar language and are of the same religion. Therefore, most the family child care, religious programs, and public schools are traditional reflections of a community’s race, religion, socioeconomic status, and language. Still, parents expect such traditional programs to provide their children with experiences and opportunities outside their group that could teach them to accept, tolerate, and respect the differences. The developmentally inappropriate approaches that guide the teachers make the task even more difficult than envisaged. For instance, the discussions of bias, power, inequality, privilege, past injustices and oppression make the task difficult. 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