For example, Kathy Sylva, a professor of educational psychology at Oxford University, has said that children who start attending nursery before the age of 2 go on to form better relationships at primary school. Here are some more plus points. Nursery helps children to be confident in relating to other adults and being in a learning environment. This environment supports them in developing skills such as knowing when to ask to go to the toilet and washing their hands.
Children will also gain experience in sharing and taking turns without throwing a tantrum. Going to nursery helps them develop their social skills and learn how to make friends before they arrive at school. If both school and nursery are local to your home they may even have some friends already, which will help them settle in quicker.
Nursery practitioners will be able to give your children the best possible care whilst you do what you need to do to be a great parent, whether this is going to work, doing a food shop or simply having a well-earned rest.
Deciding what age is right to send your child to nursery is a very personal choice, depending on when you need to return to work and what you feel is best for your child. Although the pile of research has grown over the last three decades, the capacity of the subject to provoke fury and unease has not waned. As one academic explains, when you are talking about "how best to look after the most vulnerable, smallest, tenderest members of society", it is natural that the debate is highly charged.
The research also showed that good-quality childcare had a positive effect on cognitive and language development. Should these findings influence a parent considering nursery care for an under-two? Perhaps not, Belsky says. It's a probability not a certainty. The probability looks small, the effect is modest, not big.
You might conclude therefore not to worry about it'. For policymakers, however, he argues that the conclusion should not be disregarded. He continues: "Let's imagine these are small effects. But let's imagine a reception class of 30 children in which two-thirds of them have small effects that make them a little bit more aggressive and disobedient Are those teachers going to be doing more time managing and less time teaching?
Are those playgrounds going to be less friendly? Are those neighbourhoods going to be affected? It's all the cars that do it. People are so ideologically opposed to these findings that instead of being thoughtful about them, they respond as if there is only one way to think about them — small, don't matter, ignore," he says. He is resigned to the way that parents, policy-makers and fellow academics recoil from his findings.
The guy who first linked Aids with homosexuality back in the early s was accused of being a homophobe. The same kind of idiotic, kneejerk, ideological reaction occurred here.
People think I'm against daycare. What I say is, if the weather man says it is going to rain tomorrow, is that because he is against sunshine? People feel very defensive about this area.
Belsky has been accused of catastrophising, and it's probably true to say that not all of his colleagues would agree with his account of his professional victimisation.
It is remarkable how scratchy, if not positively disparaging, many of the experts in this field are about their colleagues' work. Kathy Sylva , another American academic now based here, who has been involved in two major UK studies designed to assess the impact of nursery care on children here, comes to different conclusions.
The government-funded Effective Provision of Pre-School Education EPPE research, which has followed the progress of 3, children since found that if children had been in nurseries they had raised levels of aggression when they got to school at five, and which were still present at seven. A second study in , the Family Children Childcare , following 1, babies from three months, found no relationship between the amount of childcare experienced by a baby and behaviour problems at 36 months.
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