Nursery World - Take your pick

Letting children make choices helps them become self-reliant, but you can burden them with too many decisions. Jennie Lindon offers useful approaches Adults make many decisions in children's lives. Sometimes it would not be safe for a child to choose and sometimes they would not have enough understanding to weigh up the alternatives. But that leaves many instances when children can make a choice.

Adults make many decisions in children's lives. Sometimes it would not be safe for a child to choose and sometimes they would not have enough understanding to weigh up the alternatives. But that leaves many instances when children can make a choice.

Your support as an adult can be in helping to highlight a choice and being honest about the options. As a nanny, you need to be clear with the children's parents about circumstances when there is no choice or possibilities are definitely limited.

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Making choices in aspects of daily life supports young children in their growing self-reliance.

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