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We can all feel a little bit stuck at times and wonder why learning isn't happening for our children. Perhaps your environment feels chaotic and your children just flit from one area to another. Or perhaps nothing you put out seems to create high levels of interest and involvement. You're going round in circles setting up provocations around an interest you think a child has but it just doesn't grab them. Worse still you feel the only play going on is destructive and the children are not getting anything from it. 

Sometimes you just need an opportunity to stand back and evaluate what's happening with some handy tips to move learning on.

One of the wonderful approaches to life that the Scandinavians tend to have is turning a negative into a positive. For example if its dark and cold outside they can think well what opportunity does that give me? It gives me some quiet time to get cosy and read a book by the fire.

We can take this approach when it comes to considering behaviour too. I...