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Children are capable of more self reliance than their parents sometimes think. With the right support your child can learn to meet many of their own needs, and will often joyfully rise to an opportunity convincingly put.
Very young children have a strong tendency towards order. An ordered and consistent environment, including people, enables young children to orientate themselves in the world and provides them with a sense of security. It is our role as the adult to provide and initially maintain this order for the child, when they are too young to maintain it by themselves. Order in the external environment is taken in by the child’s absorbent mind and is used to create internal order in their thinking. The child requires order in their environment to the age of 6 years, with the sensitivity peaking at 18 months through to 2½ – 3 years.
