Nursery World - Response time

Children withdraw for different reasons so the key lies in the bigger picture, say Jenny Mosley and her team Q There is a very quiet and withdrawn child who attends nursery. She tends to play on her own and not interact with her peers. She has attended nursery for the past six months, since she was three and a half, so we would expect that she'd have settled in by now.

Q There is a very quiet and withdrawn child who attends nursery. She tends to play on her own and not interact with her peers. She has attended nursery for the past six months, since she was three and a half, so we would expect that she'd have settled in by now.

Q We have siblings, aged two and a half and four, at nursery whose father recently moved out of home. The children are noticeably withdrawn and upset. The youngest is weepy and the older boy is having arguments with his peers and playing by himself a lot. What should we do?

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