Are you familiar with the following situation: as a child, you try to explain or justify a certain situation with a teacher to your parent, and no matter how hard you try, your parent doesn’t fully understand you; while the parent offers ready-made solutions and guidelines about what you should have done – you realize that the parent doesn’t really know the teacher you are talking about and can’t connect the teacher’s personality with the situation you were in.

Aware of the importance of mutual respect and involvement of both parents and kindergarten, the Trešnjober program is a constant subject of reflection and consideration on how we can further engage parents. Although daily verbal and written communication with parents is the basis for building relationships, organizing joint activities with parents and children is especially important to us. The shared presence of adults allows the child to observe the important people in their life together, gathered around a common activity with children in a pleasant and friendly atmosphere. That is why this week we invited our parents to celebrate an important family holiday by decorating Easter eggs, joking, and spending time together with the children.
While on one hand parents feel important in the kindergarten and respected as the most important adults in the child’s life, on the other hand, the child recognizes that kindergarten is not necessarily a place where they are separated from their loved ones, but rather a place where the child lives and where all the adults important to the child reside.

Adults and peers with whom the child interacts daily are not isolated categories but parts of the child’s shared experience. A child surrounded by adults who genuinely participate in the child’s development and the relationships the child builds, is a happy and content child.