Transitions And Significant Events Essay

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Unit 1 Part 1
This chapter contains information about the following topics:
• Transitions and significant events,
• Stranger fear and separation anxiety
• Settling a child into the setting
• Theories of development and learning, including attachment theory

Transitions and significant Events.
Most children will experience a transition or significant event in the first five years of their lives. These can be broadly categorised into
 planned transitions such as moving house, having a new brother or sister, starting at nursery
 unplanned transitions such as sudden illness or death in the family, divorce of parents, being an asylum seeker etc.
Planned transitions
Planned transitions can be prepared for, and managed. If the child already attends …show more content…

This is experienced by most (though not all) children from the age of about 6 months. By this age most children will have established a strong bond with their main carer, will recognise their main carer(s) and so will be distressed if they are taken from this person. Before the age of 6 months, the child may not recognise a change of carer, and so will be happy to be with any adult. This anxiety peaks at about 12 months and may continue until the child is 5 or 6 years old, though many children will cope with this separation by the age of 18month’s.
Separation anxiety can be reduced, first and foremost, by understanding the research work on how children can make significant attachments with a range of adults, and that as long as one of these key adults is present, the child will not be distressed. This work was started by John Bowlby, then further developed by a number of theorists after him. You will read more about Bowlby’s work in the next section.
This will be implemented in an early years setting through having a key worker system, which is now a legal requirement under the Statutory Framework of the Early Years Foundation

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