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Enabling Environments - Inspirational Spaces: Get inspired

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

| Nursery World

Just what do practitioners enable when they provide the environments that attract children to play? Natalie Canning analyses crucial elements.

Irregular bedtimes for children can cause hyperactive behaviour

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Monday, October 14, 2013

| Nursery World

A new study has found that children with erratic bedtimes are more likely to be hyperactive and experience emotional difficulties.

Positive Relationships: Ask the expert ... Just shy?

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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

| Nursery World

Is a child who chooses to play alone a cause for concern? Dr Maria Robinson suggests that being quiet is not necessarily a problem.

A unique child: Music therapy - Scaling up

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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

| Nursery World

A study has measured the effects of music therapy on children's emotional well-being, reports Karen Faux.

Positive relationships: All about ... Childhood friendships

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Tuesday, April 1, 2008

| Nursery World

Children go through recognisable developmental stages in their ability to make friends, which nursery life can foster, writes Philip Erwin

Positive relationships: Key people - part 3 - Good relations

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Wednesday, May 7, 2008

| Nursery World

Strategies to engage the third partner in the key person approach - the parent - as a child enters and settles in to nursery are explained in our continuing series on key caring by Anne O'Connor

Analysis: Inflated view of risk inhibits children

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Tuesday, November 9, 2010

| Nursery World

The best way to address children's desires and fears is to ask the children themselves, where taking risks is concerned, says Cyndy Hawkins.

Learning & development: Play - Play is what I do

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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

| Nursery World

This extract from a new book, 'Play Is What I Do', explains the different aspects of young children's play and activities.

Positive Relationships: Behaviour: Ask the expert ... From all angles

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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

| Nursery World

Is one child's aggression a problem, or just a stage? Dr Maria Robinson looks at developmental factors.

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.

Positive Relationships: Ask the expert ... It's mine!

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

| Nursery World

What are practitioners to make of it when the children in conflict over toys are siblings? Dr Maria Robinson shows how to look more closely.

Unique Child: Practice in pictures - When friends fall out

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Tuesday, June 3, 2008

| Nursery World

While children will squabble from time to time, they are usually practising negotiating techniques. The skill for adults is to know when to step in or step back and let them get on with it, explains Anne O'Connor.

Positive relationships - Childhood fears - I'm scared

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

| Nursery World

Why children feel fear, and how they experience it at different ages, is explored by Maria Robinson.

Learning & Development: Aggressive Play - For real?

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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

| Nursery World

Should childcarers allow aggressive play, and where does the line have to be drawn? Elaine Lee considers the views of various professionals.

Play therapy 'improves the health of children with emotional and behavioural problems'

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Friday, October 7, 2011

| Nursery World

More than 70 per cent of five-year-olds who have received play therapy show a positive change, according to findings from a new study.

A Unique Child: Inclusion - On target

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Tuesday, October 7, 2008

| Nursery World

Burnwood Nursery School has cut dramatically its number of children on the special needs register. Head teacher Juliet Levingstone explains how, in the second of a series on Stoke-on-Trent's nursery schools.

Positive relationships: Key people - part 2 - Rest assured

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Wednesday, April 9, 2008

| Nursery World

Implementing a 'key caring' approach may seem daunting, but practitioners need to understand its benefits for everyone, explains Anne O'Connor.

Controlled crying harms babies' brains, says Leach

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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

| Nursery World

Leaving babies to cry themselves to sleep can harm their brain development, childcare expert Penelope Leach has claimed.

A Unique Child: Wrestling - Roll with it

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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

| Nursery World

Young boys seem to have a natural urge to wrestle with each other, so what stance should childcarers take? asks Annette Rawstrone.

In My View - Can we be gender-blind?

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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

| Nursery World

A four-year-old boy, Jeremy, goes to nursery school wearing hair-slides.

Positive Relationships: Behaviour - Once bitten ..

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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

| Nursery World

A thoughtful strategy will help practitioners keep incidents of biting under control, writes Jennie Lindon.

Unique child: Practice in pictures - Movement play

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Tuesday, April 1, 2008

| Nursery World

Movement play is vital to young children's cognitive development as well as physical skills, says Anne O'Connor

Positive relationships: Behaviour, Part 1 - In the extreme

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Tuesday, July 6, 2010

| Nursery World

Supporting children who cannot stay in control may be the ultimate challenge for conscientious practitioners, says Pat Gordon-Smith in the first of four articles on responding to behaviour.

Positive Relationships: Behaviour - Coats on?

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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

| Nursery World

Why do children resist wearing coats, and if it's necessary, how should adults persuade them to? Cath Hunter has advice for all childcarers.

Behaviour links found to infant difficulties

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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

| Nursery World

Babies who show excessive crying and difficulties in sleeping and feeding in their first year are more likely to develop significant behavioural problems as they get older, a new study suggests.

Search Results

Enabling Environments - Inspirational Spaces: Get inspired

Irregular bedtimes for children can cause hyperactive behaviour

Positive Relationships: Ask the expert ... Just shy?

A unique child: Music therapy - Scaling up

Positive relationships: All about ... Childhood friendships

Positive relationships: Key people - part 3 - Good relations

Analysis: Inflated view of risk inhibits children

Learning & development: Play - Play is what I do

Positive Relationships: Behaviour: Ask the expert ... From all angles

A Unique Child: The Developing Brain, part 1 - Life before birth

Positive Relationships: Ask the expert ... It's mine!

Unique Child: Practice in pictures - When friends fall out

Positive relationships - Childhood fears - I'm scared

Learning & Development: Aggressive Play - For real?

Play therapy 'improves the health of children with emotional and behavioural problems'

A Unique Child: Inclusion - On target

Positive relationships: Key people - part 2 - Rest assured

Controlled crying harms babies' brains, says Leach

A Unique Child: Wrestling - Roll with it

In My View - Can we be gender-blind?

Positive Relationships: Behaviour - Once bitten ..

Unique child: Practice in pictures - Movement play

Positive relationships: Behaviour, Part 1 - In the extreme

Positive Relationships: Behaviour - Coats on?

Behaviour links found to infant difficulties

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