A unique child: Sleep - Rest assured

By Liz Dolan, Nursery World, 17 July 2008

All early years settings need to do it, but how carefully is their practice considered and organised? Liz Dolan looks at helping children sleep.

Helping young children to rest and sleep is something which many of us do every day in nurseries, yet it is hardly ever discussed or written about. It's one of those aspects of working in the early years that seems to be learned 'on the job', without much consideration of different approaches and theories. There are very few references to sleep in the new Early Years Foundation Stage. Yet there is growing research evidence to suggest...

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