Being Present for Your Nursery Age Child

Jeanne Magagna

• 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