Nursery World - Unpack your troubles

Children can see their troubles fly away with a resource that can support practitioners' own empathising, as Marion Dowling explains Aziz, aged four and a refugee, finds life in this new country strange and his mother tearfully tells him that they may never see his father again.

Aziz, aged four and a refugee, finds life in this new country strange and his mother tearfully tells him that they may never see his father again.

Sally, also four, knows that her old and ill dog will die soon. Sean, a little younger, is afraid of going to bed because his brother says that a bad man will take him away during the night.

Children, like adults, are often troubled. The scale of concerns for these three small children is very different but in every case the outcomes are similar - agitated and fretful behaviour and an inability to concentrate.

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