Keeping the peace

Letting children make decisions and help with tasks is a good way to keep yourself from making mountains out of molehills when you disagree, says Lena Engel Generally, most adults, including early years practitioners and parents, think that they know best when it comes to what children should be doing and saying. They have this view because common sense tells them that knowledge and expertise is gained with age and that young children should learn to do as they are told.