Health and Nutrition Adult supervision Name Institutional affiliation Abstract Supervision is the act of guiding the activities of children to facilitate learning and safety in the institution. Children demand different levels of supervision based on their age, ability, the type of activity and the number of supervisors available. Rules also aid in supervising the children. They state the dos and donts of the institution or class. While creating rules, the supervisors should take into consideration the input of the children, the structure of the rules, the vocabularies and the number of the rules to make the directives not only easy to remember but also interesting to abide with. Health and Nutrition Adult supervision Introduction Children are different from adults, in that they are not responsible for their actions. An adult or adults should, therefore, guide them into becoming responsible. Supervision is an essential part of safety and discipline of children in learning institutions. The supervisor acts as the service provider, contact person and the person responsible for the children under his care. Majority of accidents in early childhood development centres result from lapses in the supervision such as negligence of the supervisors, inadequate staff and insufficient or irrelevant training. Rules