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Positive Relationships: Baby bags - A new arrival

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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Children enjoy an innovative resource thought up by nursery staff, says Annette Rawstrone.

Positive Relationships: A parent's guide to ... Self-care

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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Teaching young children to look after themselves

Positive Relationships: Behaviour - Once bitten ..

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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

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

Positive Relationships: Behaviour, Part 3 - Powerful feelings

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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Ways that early years staff can thoughtfully engage the parents of challenging children are explored by Pat Gordon-Smith.

Positive relationships: Baby room - Holding the baby

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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Students on placement in early years settings are discouraged from bonding with babies by various factors, as Jackie Musgrave found.

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

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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

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

Positive Relationships: Transitions - Rosie starts reception

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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

The ingredients that helped a child to make a confident move up to school are gratefully acknowledged by former early years teacher Phoebe Doyle.

Positive relationships: Behaviour, Part 1 - In the extreme

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Tuesday, July 6, 2010

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: A parent's guide to ... television

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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

The words 'television' and 'young children' when put together are likely to make many parents wince from guilt.

Positive Relationships: Fathers - Dad's day

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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Early years and family events to highlight the role of fathers could be the perfect way to celebrate Father's Day, says Viv Hampshire.

Positive relationships: Ask the expert ... All night long

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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

A practitioner's interest in a child's remark about family life poses questions for Dr Maria Robinson.

Positive Relationships: Rewards - Sticking points

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Tuesday, May 4, 2010

The pitfalls of using rewards such as stickers to guide behaviour are examined by Jennie Lindon.

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

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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

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 - Home Visits - Knock on my door

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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Inviting their peers home for a snack and play is the route to happy integration for children at a diverse centre. Karen Faux hears how.

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

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

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.

Positive relationships: A parent's guide to ... tantrums in older children

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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Tantrums in two-year-olds are not exactly fun for parents, but spare a thought for those parents whose fourand five-year-olds regularly attack the floor and even them.

Positive relationships: Ask the expert ... Best of friends?

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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

The choice of playmates in different contexts reveals interesting issues about friendship and about gender to Dr Maria Robinson.

Positive Relationships: Key person approach - Pressure points

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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Some difficulties in implementing the key person approach are pinpointed by Julian Grenier as he listens to nursery staff.

Positive Relationships: The Key Person System - Close to you

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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

The principles and the practicalities of operating a key person system in the nursery, as defined by the late Elinor Goldschmied, are explained by her colleague Sonia Jackson.

Positive Relationships: Child Development - In simple terms

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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

If babies had words for their feelings, what would they say? Lisa Murray took their viewpoint to create a resource for parents.

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

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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Is independence something that can be taught? How do early years practitioners approach it with the children's parents? Annette Rawstrone spoke to teachers at a Montessori school.

Learning & Development: National Strategies series - part 2 - Listen and learn - Positive Relationships: listening to parents and carers

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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

In the second of our National Strategies features on the EYFS, senior director Helen Moylett and Janet Ackers, senior adviser, early years, reflect on the importance of listening to parents and carers.

EYFS best practice: All about ... relationships and feelings in the nursery

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Nursery staff working with the key person approach may feel overwhelmed at times by their own emotions in the course of their job. Penelope Leach PhD has advice on how to cope.

Positive Relationships: Family illness - When granny lost her hair

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

After early years consultant Sandy Green was diagnosed with cancer, she wrote a story for her young grandchildren in the hope that it would make the changes, and the 'unknown', less alarming for them.

Positive Relationships: Parents' Group - Cot gossip

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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Mothers bond with each other as well as their babies in sessions at a children's centre informed by expert talks. Annette Rawstrone reports.

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Positive Relationships: Baby bags - A new arrival

Positive Relationships: A parent's guide to ... Self-care

Positive Relationships: Behaviour - Once bitten ..

Positive Relationships: Behaviour, Part 3 - Powerful feelings

Positive relationships: Baby room - Holding the baby

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

Positive Relationships: Transitions - Rosie starts reception

Positive relationships: Behaviour, Part 1 - In the extreme

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

Positive Relationships: Fathers - Dad's day

Positive relationships: Ask the expert ... All night long

Positive Relationships: Rewards - Sticking points

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

Positive Relationships - Home Visits - Knock on my door

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

Positive relationships: A parent's guide to ... tantrums in older children

Positive relationships: Ask the expert ... Best of friends?

Positive Relationships: Key person approach - Pressure points

Positive Relationships: The Key Person System - Close to you

Positive Relationships: Child Development - In simple terms

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

Learning & Development: National Strategies series - part 2 - Listen and learn - Positive Relationships: listening to parents and carers

EYFS best practice: All about ... relationships and feelings in the nursery

Positive Relationships: Family illness - When granny lost her hair

Positive Relationships: Parents' Group - Cot gossip

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