This kind of treatment that the boy is receiving is terrible it is called disability discrimination. It could affect him in many different ways such as, he could feel lonely; isolated and marginalised this could affect his self esteem and cause him to feel. It could also completely destroy the self esteem that the disable toddler may have had. The child could be bullied and ignored by the other toddlers this could make the boy feel unwanted and insignificant. This kind of treatment can effect his development / well being in a negative way because they could make him stop eating and this could cause him to have ill health and lack in confidence. He may become a loner and unsociable if he does not know how to interact with others from an early age.
In care centre X there is a polish toddler. She has been attending the care centre for a couple of months now and she is fitting in well. A new care worker starts at the placement. The new care worker introduces herself to everyone but ignores the polish child. Later on that day the new care worker is helping to give out the toys. The polish girls asks the new helper if she could have the doll and the care worker answers no your polish and gives the doll to a girl who is the same race as herself.
The new care worker may have this reaction because she may have had bad experience with polish people in the past and is taking it out on the polish child. This is unacceptable behaviour from someone who is in a caring profession
The polish girl could feel alone because of this and it may be hard for her to make friends. This is affecting her social needs to interact with others her age. Seeing that the new care worker is treating her this way the other children may follow the care workers example bad example and ignore the polish girl because she is different. This will affect her social needs because this experience may make her feel self conscious and hard for her to make friends.
In centre X there is a traveller child who has joined the care centre recently. At the beginning it was easier for her to make friends because she was a friendly, cheerful, pleasant and bubbly little girl but now things have changed because no one wants to play with her anymore. One day she plucks up the courage to ask one of her old best friends why she was not playing with her, the girl says that one of the care workers said that the traveller child was dirty.
The reason behind the children’s change in behaviour towards the traveller child may be due to their care worker. The care worker may have negative views towards the travelling community and they may not like them because of incidents that may have happened in the past or views and discrimination that they may hold against these certain groups of people. Then in turn these biased views of the care worker could be past down to children themselves and make them view this certain group of people in the same pessimistic way.
Due to this discrimination the traveller child may feel like she is being judged and not worthy of having any friends. This may make her discriminate against other people when she grows up because of the discrimination that she is receiving now. She may be feeling left out and alone because her friends are deserting her. She may also feel afraid.
In care centre X there is a young black boy who has joined the care centre. He is quite shy and because of this it is difficult for him to make friends. But as the day goes on he is being greeted by the other children and care workers. This action makes him more relaxed and opened to other people.
Later on in the day the head care worker asks an inexperienced care worker to take a small group of children. The care worker begins to pick on the young black boy who is in her group. Telling him to hurry up, to sit down and be quiet. Apart from them few harsh words she ignores the young black boys for the rest of the day.
The reason behind this reaction is mainly due to her grandfather. He told her that all black people were no good and that most of them grow up to be criminals. So it is obvious that the grandfathers discrimination and negative prejudice has been past through the generation. As well as her grandfathers negativity. The care worker themselves had a bad experience with black people when she was growing up because her house was rob by an adolescent black male. So this experience has also gone towards her negative attitudes towards black people no matter what age they are.
The young black boy will feel that he is being picked on and bullied this could cause him to have serve depression problems as he gets older, he may find difficulty making friends harder because he feels that he is being labelled as the bad guy and this could lower his self esteem dramatically. It could effect him emotional because it could make him feel miserable, it may effect him socially because it may be hard for him to make friends.
