QUALITY STORYTENTS
A resource for family, early childhood and community literacy workers
The quality of the relationships between workers and children is key to the success of the program. To build a positive relationship, we avoid what William Glasser (2002) calls disconnecting behaviours or "the seven deadly habits" (see sidebar). Instead, we use what he calls connecting behaviours, or the seven connecting habits:
seven deadly habits
Using these positive behaviours, we can provide a consistently friendly atmosphere, with no judging or correcting of people's choices. For the children and families involved this means that the storytent will be a safe space. There will be a minimum of interpersonal conflict or external pressure to perform. This is how we begin to “do or don't do” things as individuals or educators to create a social context able to support “success in learning” (Bredekamp et al, 1992, p. 1).