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Child Development: Your guide to the first five years: part 4 - Relationships
By Maria Robinson,
Nursery World,
28 February 2008
Early years practitioners should reflect on how the quality of the relationships they establish with the children in their care will influence the child's emotional development and ability to respond confidently to other people throughout life.
In part three of this series, I talked about our feelings and emotions, and this time, I will discuss further how the power of those feelings builds up the type and quality of a relationship, the importance of attachments and the growth of empathy. In the Early Years Foundation Stage document, one of the four main principles is that of 'Positive Relationships'. This describes...
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