Q In our nursery, some parents always seem to greet their child with, 'What have you done today?', meaning that they want to see something tangible or hear that the child has learned something definite. One mother really goes for the 'third degree' and her daughter now mutters, 'Nothing, nothing'.
The mother is now worried and tells us that her child is bored and has lost her excitement to learn. Yet this is a child who literally skips around the nursery with delight and is enthusiastic through every session. We are being horribly tempted almost to brief this four-year-old, so she has something to report each day.
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