BEING PRESENT FOR YOUR NURSERY AGE CHILD
BEING PRESENT FOR YOUR NURSERY AGE CHILD Observing, Understanding, and Helping Children Edited by
Jeanne Magagna and Patrizia Pasquini
The Tempo Lineare Project
First published in Italy in 2007 as a self-published book
First published in 2014 by Karnac Books Ltd 118 Finchley Road, London NW3 5HT
Copyright © 2014 to Jeanne Magagna and Patrizia Pasquini for the edited collection, and to the individual authors for their contributions.
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ISBN: 978 1 78220 141 0
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ix
ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
xi
INTRODUCTION by Jeanne Magagna
xiii
PART I: ON LEARNING TO OBSERVE CHAPTER ONE The Tempo Lineare project Patrizia Pasquini
3
CHAPTER TWO Listening to, and sharing, the experience of growth Patrizia Pasquini
13
CHAPTER THREE Nursery as therapist: understanding the “present moment” of the child Jeanne Magagna
25
CHAPTER FOUR Weaving bonds: Tempo Lineare, a school for life Carla Busato Barbaglio
37
PART II: HOW THE YOUNG MIND IS BUILT CHAPTER FIVE Emotional and cognitive development: from chaotic experiences to experiences made “thinkable” Patrizia Pasquini v
47
vi
CONTENTS
CHAPTER SIX Becoming a parent of an adopted child Carla Busato Barbaglio
57
CHAPTER SEVEN Primitive protections used by fostered and adopted children Jeanne Magagna
67
CHAPTER EIGHT An adopted child developing within a nursery group Patrizia Pasquini
87
CHAPTER NINE Feeling good, feeling bad; being good and being bad Jeanne Magagna
95
CHAPTER TEN The observation of children with eating difficulties Patrizia Pasquini
113
PART III: COMPASSIONATELY COMPREHENDING CHILDREN PLAYING CHAPTER ELEVEN A way of looking at a child that contains and creates meaning Carla Busato Barbaglio
123
CHAPTER TWELVE A special time for playing and thinking together Jeanne Magagna
129
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Developing altruistic skills in Tempo Lineare: “the Island of Puppies” Patrizia Pasquini
147
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Creating