Nursery World - Positive Relationships: Behaviour

Julia Manning-Morton looks at strategies and support in her final
article on twos' behaviour

This series of articles has looked at how the everyday behaviours that sometimes give two-year-olds a negative reputation are a manifestation of fundamentally important aspects of their development. Most of these everyday behaviours are managed positively in settings that are structured with the particular needs of two-year-olds in mind and where practitioners have a good knowledge and understanding of the play, development and learning of this age group.

But sometimes practitioners struggle with some behaviours that two-year-olds exhibit. So as well as looking at strategies for approaching everyday behaviours positively, this final article in the series also considers the kinds of support practitioners need to develop strategies for responding positively to behaviour that is 'difficult'.

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