Separation
17 articles
How Attachment Affects Daycare Adjustment (US)
Your child's attachment — how safe and held they feel in their relationship with you — quietly shapes how they handle the first weeks of daycare. A se...
How Attachment Affects Daycare Adjustment (UK)
Your child's attachment — how safe and held they feel in their relationship with you — quietly shapes how they handle the first weeks of nursery. A se...
How Attachment Affects Daycare Adjustment (Global)
Your child's attachment — how safe and held they feel in their relationship with you — quietly shapes how they handle the first weeks of daycare. A se...
Adaptation Features in Children Aged 2–3 Years (US)
Starting daycare between two and three is one of the most common transitions in UK family life, and it is genuinely different from starting at six mon...
Adaptation Features in Children Aged 2–3 Years (UK)
Starting nursery between two and three is one of the most common transitions in UK family life, and it is genuinely different from starting at six mon...
Adaptation Features in Children Aged 2–3 Years (Global)
Starting daycare between two and three is one of the most common transitions in UK family life, and it is genuinely different from starting at six mon...
How Children Experience Parental Separation
The most-cited longitudinal work on children of divorce — Mavis Hetherington's 30-year study — landed on a finding that surprised both sides of the po...
Parenting After Separation or Divorce: What Actually Affects Children
The most useful thing to know — partly because it pushes back against a culture that still treats divorce itself as the harm — is that children whose...
How a Child Experiences a Mother's Absence
Working parents, parents who travel, parents who just need to use the bathroom — the question is the same. What does it actually feel like to my child...
How to Transition Your Child to a New Daycare
You're moving your child to a new daycare — because you moved, because the old one closed, because something wasn't working, or because they aged into...
Daycare as a New Stage in a Child's Development
Most conversations about starting daycare are about logistics, money, and parental guilt. From the child's side, though, something much bigger is happ...
How to Say Goodbye Properly at Daycare Drop-Off
The 60 seconds between handing your child to a teacher and walking out the door shape the next several hours of their day, and the next several weeks...
Why Children Often Become Fussy in the Evening After Daycare
The teacher hands you back a smiling child and says "she had a wonderful day." Twenty minutes later your toddler is on the kitchen floor weeping becau...
How Attachment Affects Daycare Adjustment
Your child's attachment — how safe and held they feel in their relationship with you — quietly shapes how they handle the first weeks of nursery. A se...
Settling Into Childcare: Strategies for a Smoother Transition
Starting nursery is one of the bigger emotional transitions of the first three years. The settling process — the period where a child goes from clingi...
When to Leave Your Child With a Babysitter for the First Time
The first time you leave your child with a babysitter is more often the parents' anxiety than the child's. By six in the evening you are watching your...
Divorce and Separation: Supporting Young Children Through Family Change
About one in three UK children experience their parents separating before age 16. The honest research finding — and one that often surprises parents i...