Within their own families, young children learn about how adults behave and how children are supposed to behave. They assume that what they have experienced at home is the norm, so they will approach your setting with the assumption that everything is much the same.
The family experience of some children will match fairly well with your expectations and values for your setting. In this case the children will learn about the slight differences they find there and how to deal with social relations when there are more people in total than even the largest family. However, for some children there will be a significant gap between what they believe to be normal and how you wish or need young children to behave in order for the nursery day to run reasonably smoothly.
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