As Covid-19 restrictions lifted and nurseries welcomed back children, practitioners were faced with reimplementing and adapting routines for babies and toddlers.
For many children born pre-pandemic who were used to attending an early years setting, their normal routines were lost during lockdown. One consequence was disrupted sleep, commonly impacting their behaviour.
In an Italian study of parents of pre-schoolers, mothers reported a ‘general worsening of sleep quality and distortion of time’ for both them and their children, as well as increased emotional symptoms and self-regulation difficulties in their children.
PREDICTABILITY
At Thrive Childcare and Education, staff worked with parents to introduce more predictable nap and sleep times as they found some children’s routines became more flexible during lockdown.
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