A unique child separation: Practice in pictures - Bye bye!

Nursery World, 4 October 2007

Starting daycare away from home can be a daunting experience for a young child - and their parent. Anne O'Connor looks at the case of two-year-old Ava and considers how settings can take the tension out of settling in at nursery

Ava's first day Ava, who lives with her mother Molly, attends a small local nursery for two and half days a week. As part of the settling-in process, she and her mother had visited the setting several times so that they were able to begin building a relationship with Ava's appointed key person, Claire. This familiarity meant that Claire...

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