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To improve their relationships with kinship carers, and to help make these people feel less isolated, practitioners should understand their particular challenges. By Nicola Stobbs and Alison Prowle

Positive Relationships: Behaviour - As you please

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Monday, October 16, 2017

| Nursery World

The child who always wants to please is evidently kind and caring, but this behaviour could be masking low self-esteem and other problems that need to be addressed, explains Cath Hunter

Positive Relationships: Behaviour - How cruel?

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Monday, October 2, 2017

| Nursery World

Ahead of next month’s Anti-Bullying Week, Caroline Vollans examines what bullying behaviour actually is and shows how practitioners can encourage children’s kindness and co-operation

Positive Relationships: Behaviour - In the moment

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Monday, September 18, 2017

| Nursery World

Dealing with conflict is an important life skill, so practitioners must weigh up when to step in and provide a solution – and when to let the children sort it out for themselves, explains Nicola Watson

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

Positive Relationships: Male Practitioners - Men at work

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Monday, September 4, 2017

| Nursery World

In Glasgow, an ‘Approved by Dads’ training programme is getting men – many of them fathers – into the childcare profession, to the benefit of participants, settings and children, finds Annette Rawstrone

Positive Relationships: Working with Parents - REAL progress

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Monday, August 21, 2017

| Nursery World

A home learning early literacy project in Merseyside has improved communication and language development for those children and parents in need of extra support. By Laura Gregory

Positive Relationships: Parenting programmes - Home truths

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Monday, August 7, 2017

| Nursery World

An early intervention programme called Parents as First Teachers is improving parent-child interactions, the home environment and, as a result, child outcomes, writes Annette Rawstrone

Positive Relationships: Working With Parents - Day by day

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Monday, July 24, 2017

| Nursery World

Parents and Children Together (PACT), a new parent-delivered teaching programme, has led to gains in children’s early language and reading skills. Kelly Burgoyne, Rachel Gardner, Helen Whiteley and Charles Hulme report on the project

Positive Relationships: Nurture - A fresh start

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Monday, June 26, 2017

| Nursery World

Children struggling in Reception and Year 1 with behavioural and emotional problems are being helped to become more confident learners at a specialist centre in Everton. By Caroline Vollans

Home Learning: A parent’s guide to… early science

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Monday, June 12, 2017

| Nursery World

Tips for encouraging children’s inquisitiveness, by Penny Tassoni

Positive Relationships: Men in Childcare - In proportion

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Monday, May 29, 2017

| Nursery World

One setting is bucking the norm of a female-dominated early years workforce by making the recruitment of men part of its commitment to equality and diversity, finds Meredith Jones Russell

EYFS Best Practice: All about… teaching assistants

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Wednesday, May 3, 2017

| Nursery World

New research shows that when used in the best way, teaching assistants can have a positive impact on children’s learning and their transition to school, as Marion Dowling explains

Positive Relationships: Working with Parents - Good to talk

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Monday, May 1, 2017

| Nursery World

A project run by a nursery in the West Midlands with the University of Worcester is helping parents to support their children’s language development, explain Alison Prowle and Nicola Stobbs