It is difficult, if not impossible, to understand any relationship as an outsider, whether it is between parent and child or husband and wife. What we can and should do is try to sensitively interpret the symptoms we see and help the families we work with to deal with the causes, whatever they may be.
Perhaps the parents who request that their child does not sleep in the day are having problems with the child sleeping through the night. The nursery could help them address this. Similarly, those whose child arrived in last night's nappy may need support instead of criticism.
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