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A Unique Child: Inclusion - Special friends
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- Monday, October 20, 2014 | Nursery World
Dolls with their own personas and life stories are being used by
some practitioners to help raise issues of equality and encourage
children to think critically. Vicky Hutchin explains.
A Unique Child: home culture - Worlds apart?
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- Tuesday, August 9, 2011 | Nursery World
To understand a child's home culture, early years educators need to look beyond the superficial, such as food and dress, to parents' ways of thinking, attitudes to behaviour and long-term aspirations for their children, says Opal Dunn
A Unique Child: Inclusion - Rigid thinking
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- Monday, October 16, 2017 | Nursery World
Is your nursery space working for or against gender diversity? Dr Jen Lyttleton-Smith examines why promoting gender diversity and avoiding stereotypical roles is important when working with young children, and how settings can change their practice and environment for the better
A Unique Child: Child Development - First love
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- Friday, April 5, 2013 | Nursery World
The economic incentives offered to encourage mothers to return to work ignore the parent's crucial role in the early years, Sally Goddard Blythe believes
Resilience - From me to you
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- Monday, August 20, 2018 | Nursery World
What is resilience and how should it be put into practice in the early years? Sarah Cox explains her research on the subject
A Unique Child: Cognitive development - Multi-lingualism
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- Tuesday, March 15, 2011 | Nursery World
More children are now growing up multilingual. Kyra Karmiloff and Annette Karmiloff-Smith examine the latest research on how this affects development.
A Unique Child: Practice in pictures - separation
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- Monday, November 28, 2011 | Nursery World
Practitioners should acknowledge the feelings that separation can trigger in a young child, a parent and themselves, says Anne O'Connor.
A Unique Child: Outdoors - Practice in pictures - Play mates
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- Tuesday, June 1, 2010 | Nursery World
A simple interaction shows symbolic play and social interaction between toddlers, says Anne O'Connor.
A Unique Child: Inclusion - In the pink
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- Tuesday, August 24, 2010 | Nursery World
Early years practitioners can do a lot to challenge gender stereotypes and avoid limiting the choices for both girls and boys, says Phoebe Doyle.
Health and Well-Being: Promoting well-being
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- Sunday, January 20, 2019 | Nursery World
The quality of adult-child interactions are critical to the well-being and brain development of a baby and young child. When an adult responds to a baby’s babbling, gestures or cries with sensitive eye-contact, words or a hug, this builds and strengthens the neural connections in a baby’s brain. Such interactions are referred to as ‘serve and return’.
EYFS Best Practice: All about… Intergenerational trauma
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- Monday, August 21, 2017 | Nursery World
Exposure to stress and abuse as a child directly affects how that child will go on to parent their own children, explains psychotherapist Robin Balbernie
Inclusion - Supporting… Jaipreet
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- Monday, November 12, 2018 | Nursery World
How one nursery in the West Midlands helped a Punjabi-speaking girl become a confident talker in English before moving on to school. By Annette Rawstrone
EYFS Best Practice: All about… children’s rights
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- Monday, September 4, 2017 | Nursery World
What children’s rights are legally, and how they should be promoted. By Professor Priscilla Alderson
A unique child: Disability Dolls - Face to face
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- Tuesday, September 30, 2008 | Nursery World
Well-meaning early years settings may provide dolls like disabled children for the sake of inclusive practice, but it could end up doing more harm than good, as Mary Evans hears from the experts.
A Unique Child: Vulnerable Children: Part 1 - How do your children grow?
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- Monday, January 27, 2014 | Nursery World
Working with vulnerable children and their families can be demanding, but the right approach will make all the difference to an individual's future. Marion Dowling looks at the barriers and solutions
A Unique Child: Practice in pictures - Social relationships
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- Tuesday, September 30, 2008 | Nursery World
Adults' facial expressions have a strong impact on very young children learning about social relationships. Anne O'Connor explains social referencing and why early years workers need to understand it.
A Unique Child: The Developing Brain, part 1 - Life before birth
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- Tuesday, May 18, 2010 | Nursery World
In its last few weeks in the womb a baby is already busy learning, says Annette Karmiloff-Smith, in the first of a new series on the developing brain.
A Unique Child: SEND Code of Practice - Shared thinking
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- Monday, July 13, 2015 | Nursery World
When faced with behavioural challenges, practitioners should
embrace the opportunity to learn more about children and develop
effective strategies to support them, says Dr Kay Mathieson.
A Unique Child: The developing brain, Part 3 - Face to face
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- Tuesday, July 13, 2010 | Nursery World
The baby's discovery of the social world is described by Annette Karmiloff-Smith.
A Unique Child: Twins - At the double
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- Monday, September 8, 2014 | Nursery World
Caring for twins requires a thoughtful approach, to ensure each
child gets the best start in life. Meredith Jones Russell takes a look
at what settings might need to consider.
EYFS Best Practice - All about… memory
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- Monday, October 2, 2017 | Nursery World
How does the ability to form and retrieve memories develop in children, why is it important to early learning, and how can adults help to stimulate it? Anne O’Connor reports
STARTING POINTS: PART 11 - Talia, 60 months old
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- Monday, October 31, 2016 | Nursery World
Meeting the emotional and learning needs of the unique child
A Unique Child: Practice in pictures - Twins
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- Tuesday, February 2, 2010 | Nursery World
Assumptions about twins need to be challenged, says Anne O'Connor.
A unique child: Resilience: Staying strong
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- Tuesday, February 9, 2010 | Nursery World
Early years practitioners can do much to help children living amid domestic violence to develop resilience and see that there are other ways for people to relate to each other, writes Karen Stephens.