Take your pick

By Jennie Lindon, Nursery World, 27 February 2003

Letting children make choices helps them become self-reliant, but you can burden them with too many decisions. Jennie Lindon offers useful approaches Adults make many decisions in children's lives. Sometimes it would not be safe for a child to choose and sometimes they would not have enough understanding to weigh up the alternatives. But that leaves many instances when children can make a choice.

Letting children make choices helps them become self-reliant, but you can burden them with too many decisions. Jennie Lindon offers useful approaches Adults make many decisions in children's lives. Sometimes it would not be safe for...

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