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Nappy changing, feeding, dressing and sleeping all come under the umbrella term of ‘care routines’. These routines are not only necessary to children’s health, but they also have the potential to support babies’ and toddlers’ learning and overall development.
For most children under the age of three, at least two hours a day will be spent being fed, changed, encouraged to nap or being dressed. As such, one might imagine that volumes would be written about these care routines and that every early years setting would have a ‘care routine’ co-ordinator who could advise the team. Interestingly, this is rarely the case. This is perhaps because traditionally, care routines were seen only in the context of health. Today, though, there is a greater understanding that all aspects of our work with children, however routine they may be, can play an important role in children’s holistic development. The term ‘educare’ has been adopted by some settings to express this.
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