This document discusses the importance of the 3A's - Attention, Approval, and Attunement - in child care. It covers how these tools can be used successfully to encourage child development and build secure attachments. When caregivers apply the 3A's to themselves as well, it promotes their own well-being and allows them to better care for children by creating a positive learning environment.

1. THE 3A’S: THE MASTER TOOLS
FOR CHILD CARE

2.  The 3A’s: Attention, Approval and Affection
 The Attachment Debate
 Understanding the 3A’s
 Using the 3A’s successfully

3. THE 3A’S:
ATTENTION, APPROVAL AND
ATTUNEMENT
 Attention
 Approval
 Attunement

4. THE ATTACHMENT DEBATE
 Secure attachment
 Avoidant attachment
 Resistant attachment
 Disoriented attachment

5. CAREGIVER SELF-HEALTH
 Apply the 3A’s to yourself!
 If you care about your own well-being the
experience generalizes to the care of children

6. USING THE 3A’S SUCCESSFULLY
 Encourage children to master their own
environment
 Builds the child’s development of identity
 Allows children to feel safe and secure and to
trust their senses for information about their
world
 Caregiving is a partnership between adult and
child
 The healthiest relationships result in the
experience of security and the safety of
expressing all the different emotions

7. MOST IMPORTANTLY: THEY
PROMOTE APPROPRIATE BEHAVIORS
AND ENHANCE A POSITIVE
LEARNING ENVIRONMENT FOR
CHILDREN