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Some children can find making friends very difficult from a young age. This only places even more importance on day care and helping to develop friendships and social skills from a young age. If your child is not in day care, there are several reasons why this could affect their early friendships.

Little Steps Day Care have a fantastic nursery for all young children. In addition to the activities and educational learning we provide, we want to develop the confidence of all children and help them build friendships from a young age.

Interacting With Children

The first step in making friends, building confidence and being comfortable around kids your age is by interacting with other children. Although a lot of parents may already have play dates organised, day care is one of the best possible methods to make sure children are regularly interacting with new people, helping to build friendships with children they get along with.

Interacting more often should build confidence and ease any anxiety as a child, whilst also making them more comfortable at day care as they are with their friends. Although there are other ways for children to interact from young, day care makes sure all children are involved and no one is ever left out in any activities. This makes it the ideal option for building friendships and helping your child settle.

Preparation For Primary School

Primary school can be a daunting prospect for children, having to leave their parents and go into their first taste of education. However, these worries can be eased significantly if you are going to school with friends you have already developed relationships with.

Without day care and preschool, making this transition can be particularly challenging. Not only will children have to deal with the beginning of education but they would have to do this without knowing their classmates. Whilst your child will still make friendships over time, it highlights the importance of day care to begin childhood friendships and give your child the easiest start to life.

Building Personality

Starting friendships as early as day care is massively important as it starts to build a child’s personality and individuality. Whether this is doing activities at day care or having fun with friends during breaks, all this will help in your child’s development.

Friends constantly support one another and learning this during day care will help children find new hobbies and interests and make friends with people who share those same interests. This not only helps build friendships from a young age but also assists in the emotional and social development of a child.

Accepting Everyone

Having diversity is fantastic and for some children, this may not be something they experience until later in life. However, day care is essential for all children to grow up with children from different backgrounds from a young age, building childhood friendships with everyone they interact with.

Children should never be sheltered from people who have different backgrounds. Going to day care will make sure everyone is accepting of others as they grow up and that any friendships can begin to blossom as soon as day care begins. This should also encourage sharing, politeness and helping to treat everyone equally.

Friends For Life?

Although it doesn’t happen for everyone, many friendships that start from a young age end up lasting a lifetime. This just demonstrates another reason why starting childhood friendships in day care could massively impact your entire life, not just early life.

Giving your child the right platform to make friends from a young age and develop the best possible friendships during day care could set them up for life. Building friendships is perhaps the most important way to grow confidence and day care is an integral part of this so find the right friends that could last a lifetime.

Contact Us

If you are still considering day care or you are unhappy with your current day care, get in touch with Little Steps today. We can talk you through our facilities and make sure you have full confidence in our day care before starting your child here. Call us for any advice and information on 01234 889518 or 07340 956 133 or fill in our contact form to make an enquiry.

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