1st Edition
Being Present for Your Nursery Age Child Observing, Understanding, and Helping Children
324 Pages
by
Routledge
324 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book represents an innovative project in which parents, teachers and other professionals work collaboratively to observe children, understand them at a deep emotional level through their play and interaction with others, and facilitate their relationships with themselves as individuals and with others. The work described has been particularly important in nurturing children's creativity and... Read more
Introduction , On Learning To Observe , The Tempo Lineare project , Listening to, and sharing, the experience of growth , Nursery as therapist: understanding the “present moment” of the child , Weaving bonds: Tempo Lineare, a school for life , How The Young Mind Is Built , Emotional and cognitive development: from chaotic experiences to experiences made “thinkable” , Becoming a parent of an adopted child , Primitive protections used by fostered and adopted children , An adopted child developing within a nursery group , Feeling good, feeling bad; being good and being bad , The observation of children with eating difficulties , Compassionately Comprehending Children Playing , A way of looking at a child that contains and creates meaning , A special time for playing and thinking together , Developing altruistic skills in Tempo Lineare: ‘The Island of Puppies” , Creating space in the family for imagination and creativity , Living in a group: children learning to know themselves and others , From One Tale Another Tale is Born , The children’s fairy tales , From tales to life and from life to tales , “The Queen of the Caramels” , The Couple, The Family, The Group, and Society , Some good reasons to support public services devoted to children , The couple’s cradle for the inner child , “The paternal role” in relation to siblings’ love, gratitude, greed, and revenge , Men in the nursery: a discussion–play group with fathers and their infants and toddlers , Welcoming and listening while working with children, parents, and nursery staff , Parents Creating and Collaborating , The parents speaking
Biography
Jeanne Magagna
