All the teaching and advice on developmentally appropriate practice and best practices provided by college instructors is meaningless if the child care center or school where the teacher works does not fully understand and apply them, and does not support teachers struggling to provide the best care and education for their children. The early childhood field in the early 21st century faces fundamental challenges: inappropriate behavioral and academic expectations, activities, assessments and practices. College early childhood instructors have an ethical imperative to provide our future teachers with ideas and the tools needed to address this conflict between what they are taught about working with young children, and how they are expected to behave and teach in early childhood programs and/or elementary schools.