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Positive Relationships: Ask the expert - Anxious parents
Nursery World,
17 September 2008
Early years practitioners have a hard time convincing some parents about developmentally-appropriate skills. Maria Robinson offers advice.
Q: A little boy in my setting has parents who keep requesting that my staff sit down with him and practise writing his name. I feel that this is not the right thing to do, as he is only three and much prefers playing chasing games or playing in the sand. They say that other children of his age are writing and that I am negligent not to be teaching him. Please help. A: It must be very upsetting to have this conflict...
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