Nursery World - Working Mum - The special ones

The knack of making parents feel their children are loved and
cherished has much value, says Working Mum.

There's an incredibly important skill that many childcarers possess, but maybe don't realise it - making us parents feel like our child is the favoured one at nursery.

It's only something I realised recently when talking to a stranger on the bus. We were both taking our daughters to their respective nurseries and were swapping notes on their childcare, as you do. The other mum told me how all the staff love her child and that she's so special that they refer to her as princess.

I'd always secretly thought that the staff at our nursery particularly liked my eldest daughter because of the way that they would greet her in the morning and affectionately tell me about funny things that she had said or done during the day when I collected her.

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