
Many are concerned that this plan may ignore the uniqueness of the two-year-olds. To mitigate this, my colleague Louise Hannan (currently researching the emotional environment for two-year-olds) and I have refreshed the original Twoness of Twos report to raise awareness about our role in ensuring two-year-olds thrive in every setting.
The Twoness of Twos report reflects research, conducted with 23 settings, and is shaped around the LEYF Leadership Hexagon whereby the evidence is filtered via the following criteria:
Unsurprising, leadership was a theme that wove throughout the responses highlighting a shared concern about insufficient leadership training available with a laser focus on the two-year-olds. As Louise reminds us, a two-year-old is not half a four-year-old and is definitely not a toddler. Being two is a distinct age and staff who work with two-year-olds are very alert to this.
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