Book description
This book aims to facilitate the understandings of nursery age
children, that is, children around three, four and five years, and their
parents. Children of these ages are particularly fascinating. The wealth
of their growing minds is apparent in their play and in their widening
capacity to express themselves in words. It is a time of much discovery
and experimentation, accompanied often by excitement and anxiety. There
is something open-minded and open-hearted about children of these years.
The author's views on nursery age children have been based on observing
and working with them over the past twenty years, in various settings,
including their homes, nursery schools and hospitals, and as a
psychologist and child psychotherapist, in assessments and individual
psychotherapy. She has also learnt much in working with families and
with groups of parents. The book is influenced and informed by the
writings of Sigmund Freud, Donald and Clare Winnicott, Anna Freud, Selma
Fraiberg, and Jean Piaget.
