Quote: "They build and sustain open and trusting relationships in order to create the conditions for learning and wherever possible, young people will choose to engage in the learning relationship." (p. 2)  I liked this quote because it talks about how you have to create trust in order to relate better with kids. You have to develop a relationship with them to help them and the focus of the work should be doing that as best you can.

2 New Ideas: 

1. Youth work is an educational practice and youth work is a social practice. I like the combination of these two because if kids are really going to learn we have to be paying attention to all of their social and welfare needs.

2. Youth work should not label kids by their past or problem behavior. No one should be labelled as a troubled teenager or a criminal or teenage Mom. They should be looked at holistically and as more than what they may have done.

3 Vocabulary Words: 

1. pro-social modelling: Enaging with youth and showing behaviors that are appropriate so that they will learn and develop behaviors that are healthy and positive for them.  

2. holistic: thinking about the person in a lot of different ways so you have the full picture. It is looking at their life, their family, their identities, their community, and everything around them too.

3. purposefully intervene: you need to have a purpose for your behaviors and actions when you work with youth. This means that you don't just say or do things but you have to have a reason for doing and saying things and we have to be intentional about how you act.

Relate this:

https://theshiftlesswanderer.com/blog/our-teens-are-not-labels

I found this post online and liked what she was saying about not labeling kids and how to avoid that. I especially liked how she said to be "compassionately curious" about the kids you are working with so you didn't just see them as a label.