I am sitting at the desk by the front door of the nursery where I'm thehead, and I hear crying, then a clatter of doors. A mother comes past,glances at me and says 'oh no, I timed that all wrong'. She had settledher little boy in with his key person, she explains. He was playinghappily and she started to move away. If she had just left then, itwould have all been alright. But she had waited a few more minutes, thenhe had looked round at her and become distressed as she started toleave. I reassure her and say that her child's key person can phonelater in the morning to say how things are going.
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