Q) Two four-year-olds in our nursery have been very close friends since they started together. Something serious has happened within the past couple of weeks - we do not know what - and they are now avoiding each other. We did not rush to intervene because children often sort out their own troubles.
But one child looks especially unhappy and her mother has raised the situation with us. Her view is that we should tell the other child to play with her daughter again, or else she is going to tackle the child and his parents. Naturally we are not willing to lay down the law in this way, but it looks as if the children do need help.
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