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Learning & Development: Play - Party time

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

| Nursery World

The role of play in young children's learning is finding new defenders around the world. Ruth Thomson hears some of the latest thinking.

Enabling Environments - Inspirational Spaces: Get inspired

Features

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.

Positive Relationships: Behaviour - A fighting chance

Features

Monday, June 16, 2014

| Nursery World

Sibling rivalry is natural and unavoidable, but the ways in which parents respond to arguments can make a real difference to children's learning. Kay Mathieson offers some advice.

Positive Relationships: Ask the expert ... Lack of speech

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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

| Nursery World

How do you deal with a child who never says a word at nursery? Don't jump to conclusions, advises Dr Maria Robinson, but observe him more carefully.

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.

Positive Relationships: Ask the expert ... Separate ways

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Tuesday, December 8, 2009

| Nursery World

Upheavals in family life may coincide unhappily with a young child's developmental stages, as Dr Maria Robinson explains.

Positive relationships: A parent's guide to ... tantrums

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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

| Nursery World

Few parents escape the embarrassment of their child having a tantrum at the supermarket checkout or on the floor of a restaurant.

Positive relationships: Let's talk about ... biting

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Tuesday, December 18, 2007

| Nursery World

It's a common occurrence, so why does a child's biting cause so much upset? Annette Rawstrone spoke to practitioners at a private day nursery. Illustration by Clare Nichols.

Positive Relationships: Behaviour - Chaos theory

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Monday, May 4, 2015

| Nursery World

Physical exuberance needs to be encouraged, not limited, in two-year-olds, says Julia Manning-Morton.

Positive Relationships: Play Therapy - Exploring feelings

Features

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

| Nursery World

Families can find ways to resolve problems in their relationships with the help of a professional play therapist, as Cath Hunter explains.

Positive Relationships: Behaviour - At the end of the day

Features

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

| Nursery World

Separating from a parent can be difficult for a child, but what does it mean when they are upset at being reunited? Cath Hunter considers

Positive Relationships: Behaviour - Strength of feeling

Features

Monday, December 11, 2017

| Nursery World

How should practitioners deal with a child who is always angry and is making life difficult for everyone at the setting? Cath Hunter explores some strategies both for nursery and for home

A unique child: Music therapy - Scaling up

Features

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

Features

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

Positive Relationships: Behaviour - In touch

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Friday, October 4, 2013

| Nursery World

If a child overreacts to tactile experiences it may be down to sensory processing, says Anne O'Connor.

Positive relationships: Let's talk about ... smacking

Features

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

| Nursery World

A group of private nursery practitioners tell Annette Rawstrone about how they deal with parents who use physical punishment on their young children.

Learning & development: Play - Play is what I do

Features

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 - Well done

Features

Friday, July 20, 2012

| Nursery World

It is standard practice to praise children for their achievements. But can too much be counterproductive? Penny Tassoni offers advice.

How children learn: part 1

Features

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

| Nursery World

In the first of a three-part series, Jan Dubiel sets out 12 key ‘Learning Behaviours’ that should underpin education in the early years

Positive Relationships: Behaviour - Stick with it?

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Friday, January 20, 2012

| Nursery World

Early years practitioners, like parents, are fiercely divided on the merits of 'reward' stickers for young children. Penny Tassoni sets out the arguments for and against.

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.

Positive Relationships: Behaviour - Ask the expert ... Taking control

Features

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

| Nursery World

A child's anxieties about physical danger and risk are addressed by Dr Maria Robinson.

Positive Relationships: Behaviour - By numbers

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Monday, December 14, 2015

| Nursery World

The sector is struggling to develop staff teams that meet the needs of two-year-olds, though some are making great strides. Annette Rawstrone talks to one nursery about its road to Outstanding