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A Unique Child: Dyslexia - Read alert

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

| Nursery World

It may be hard to identify dyslexic children when they show many of the same traits as those without it. Phoebe Doyle offers some insight.

Positive Relationships: A parent's guide to ... Teething

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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

| Nursery World

Just as some parents start to get over the shock of adapting to life with a baby, along comes teething to upset the apple cart.

Positive Relationships: Behaviour - Once bitten ..

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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

| Nursery World

A thoughtful strategy will help practitioners keep incidents of biting under control, writes Jennie Lindon.

A Unique Child: Baby-led weaning - All by myself

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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

| Nursery World

Letting babies take the lead in feeding themselves by hand has many advantages, says Annette Rawstrone.

EYFS Best Practice: All about ... Child neglect

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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

| Nursery World

Ongoing failure to care for a child can have devastating results for their whole life. Breaking the cycle of neglect is crucial, says Anne O'Connor.

Positive Relationships: A parent's guide to ... weaning

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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

| Nursery World

At a point when most parents are just about getting on top of feeding their babies with milk, the world of weaning beckons.

Nursery's film goes to TV

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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

| Nursery World

Children and nursery teachers from the foundation unit of a Nottingham primary school who won a competition to find the most innovative use for video in the classroom have got themselves a slot in a new series shown on Teachers' TV.

Positive Relationships: Behaviour, Part 3 - Powerful feelings

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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

| Nursery World

Ways that early years staff can thoughtfully engage the parents of challenging children are explored by Pat Gordon-Smith.

Positive Relationships: A parent's guide to ... choosing toys for children aged three to five

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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

| Nursery World

Rubber ducks in the bathroom, stacking beakers in the kitchen. If you have a three-year-old, the chances are that your home is already feeling like a toyshop.

Positive Relationships: Transitions - Rosie starts reception

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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

| Nursery World

The ingredients that helped a child to make a confident move up to school are gratefully acknowledged by former early years teacher Phoebe Doyle.

A unique child: Inclusion - Community singing

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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

| Nursery World

Communication skills have been boosted by an English/Urdu songbook, says early years consultant and writer Meg Jones.

Positive relationships: A parent's guide to ... television

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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

| Nursery World

The words 'television' and 'young children' when put together are likely to make many parents wince from guilt.

In my view - Tiny brains under stress

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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

| Nursery World

Penelope Leach writes: My latest book, The Essential First Year, aims to empower parents to make decisions about their babies based on information rather than on hearsay, tradition or fashion. Within it, the topic that has attracted more attention than any other is 'controlled crying'.

Positive Relationships: Fathers - Dad's day

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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

| Nursery World

Early years and family events to highlight the role of fathers could be the perfect way to celebrate Father's Day, says Viv Hampshire.

Positive relationships: Ask the expert ... All night long

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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

| Nursery World

A practitioner's interest in a child's remark about family life poses questions for Dr Maria Robinson.

Positive relationships: Vulnerable children - One to one

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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

| Nursery World

Families and practitioners alike have welcomed the benefits of having an on-site psychotherapist at a children's centre. Child and adolescent psychotherapist Inge-Martine Pretorius and Tamar Karni explain why.

Positive Relationships: A parent's guide to ... Reading

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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

| Nursery World

Everyone knows that learning to read is an essential skill, says Penny Tassoni.

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Without walls

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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

| Nursery World

Early years settings' work with families can take a new dimension when everybody gets outdoors together, says Annie Davy, early years advisor at Learning through Landscapes.

Positive Relationships: All in a day's work - painted babies

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

| Nursery World

What do babies gain from being covered in paint? Saffia Farr gives her views as a practitioner and a parent, in the first of her new monthly columns.

Positive Relationships: Ask the expert ... It's mine!

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

| Nursery World

What are practitioners to make of it when the children in conflict over toys are siblings? Dr Maria Robinson shows how to look more closely.

Positive relationships: A parent's guide to ... Speech

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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

| Nursery World

Children's speech is such a hot topic that the Government has appointed a speech tsar, or to be more precise, a 'champion of communication'. If you are the parent of a child who rarely stops talking, this may all seem a bit ludicrous, but dig a little under the hype and suddenly the focus on children's speech makes perfect sense.

Providers to lead speech skills campaign

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Tuesday, March 2, 2010

| Nursery World

Children's communications skills will be the focus of a 'National Year' campaign in 2011 spearheaded by the Communication Trust, a 38-strong consortium of private and voluntary sector providers, set up by Afasic, BT Better World Campaign, the Council for Disabled Children and I CAN.

A Unique Child: Health - A Doctor's Diary ... a Limp

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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

| Nursery World

Recently, during a busy Monday clinic, a mother brought her son in to see me. He had recently suffered a cold and for the last 24 hours had been more clingy and been limping on his left leg.

A unique child: Resilience: Staying strong

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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

| Nursery World

Early years practitioners can do much to help children living amid domestic violence to develop resilience and see that there are other ways for people to relate to each other, writes Karen Stephens.

Positive relationships: A parent's guide to ... tantrums in older children

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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

| Nursery World

Tantrums in two-year-olds are not exactly fun for parents, but spare a thought for those parents whose fourand five-year-olds regularly attack the floor and even them.