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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

| Nursery World

Few parents escape the embarrassment of their child having a tantrum at the supermarket checkout or on the floor of a restaurant.

Positive Relationships: Ask the expert ... Anxious parents

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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

| Nursery World

Each child's development, physically, mentally and emotionally, needs to progress when they are ready and willing for it, explains Dr Maria Robinson.

Positive Relationships: Child Development - In simple terms

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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

| Nursery World

If babies had words for their feelings, what would they say? Lisa Murray took their viewpoint to create a resource for parents.

Positive Relationships: Buggies - Seeing eye to eye

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Tuesday, December 2, 2008

| Nursery World

Early years staff are now taking part in an experiment that has so far only concentrated on parents. Katy Morton finds out what it's about.

Positive relationships: Ask the expert ... Nap time

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

| Nursery World

Should nursery workers go along with parents' wishes to keep their child awake all day? Maria Robinson offers advice on sleep needs.

Learning & Development: National Strategies series - part 2 - Listen and learn - Positive Relationships: listening to parents and carers

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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

| Nursery World

In the second of our National Strategies features on the EYFS, senior director Helen Moylett and Janet Ackers, senior adviser, early years, reflect on the importance of listening to parents and carers.

Positive Relationships: Parents' Group - Cot gossip

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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

| Nursery World

Mothers bond with each other as well as their babies in sessions at a children's centre informed by expert talks. Annette Rawstrone reports.

Positive Relationships: Ask the expert - Anxious parents

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Wednesday, September 17, 2008

| Nursery World

Early years practitioners have a hard time convincing some parents about developmentally-appropriate skills. Maria Robinson offers advice.

Positive relationships - working with parents: 'My child is an envelope'

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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

| Nursery World

Early years practitioners engaged parents as partners by exploring schemas for personal, social and emotional development for a project in one London borough, described by Kate Miranda and Stella Louis

Positive relationships: Key people - part 3 - Good relations

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Wednesday, May 7, 2008

| Nursery World

Strategies to engage the third partner in the key person approach - the parent - as a child enters and settles in to nursery are explained in our continuing series on key caring by Anne O'Connor