Sometimes it is obvious when a member of staff has poor relationships with children. To take a dramatic example, some of the staff shown in 'Nurseries Undercover' were short-tempered, aggressive, and unpleasant, leaving Lizz Brown to reflect on how she 'found it hard to understand how in one nursery, in Stoke-on-Trent, some staff were unkind to some of the small children'. The typical pattern is that a child is seen as demanding, and the member of staff gets angry with the child.
Unkindness to children is absolutely wrong. Additionally, though, it is important to recognise that there are other ways of having unhelpful relationships with children, which are not always so easy to spot.
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