Mwe post, I like it, but I will leave it. Like all early childhood actors, who are also mostly actresses, I watch dismayed – but not surprised – as the veil lifts on the dysfunctions that weigh on our sector. Over the past ten years, successive decrees have authorized the reception of ever more children, without increasing human, material or logistical resources.
These “flexibility” measures have allowed private groups to profit, quite legally, from the deterioration of childcare conditions. Field teams observe and denounce this reality, in vain. And for good reason: early childhood professionals, often grouped under the generic term of “childcare workers”, are the forgotten experts in their sector of activity.
An underestimated skill
Thus, our multidisciplinary skills and the wealth of our experience (in neonatal resuscitation, in a medico-social action center, in hospital services) are ignored. This ignorance – or this lack of interest – leads to the belief that, within nurseries, the teams have little know-how. However, several of our professions require three years of study (psychomotrician, educator of young children) or even four years – the childcare worker, for example, is a nurse who has passed a competitive examination, written a second dissertation and followed an additional year of theoretical courses. and practical internships before validating a second state diploma. The skills acquired in the fields of health, pedagogy, child development, psychology are not highlighted, but are absolutely essential on a daily basis for our practices to have meaning.
One of the director’s missions is to harmonize these complementary practices in order to best meet the needs of toddlers. Like many colleagues, I consider this job as a crèche director to be fascinating: accompanying children, supporting parenthood, managing the multidisciplinary team, administrative, health and educational issues… in theory.
Standardization of work
In practice, those in charge of childcare establishments (EAJE), who are therefore nursery nurses (or, under certain conditions, holders of another diploma in early childhood), find themselves in an uncomfortable position, caught between managers who focus on numbers and teams exhausted by repetitive and unattractive working conditions.
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