COVER -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS -- Introduction -- PART I ON LEARNING TO OBSERVE -- CHAPTER ONE The Tempo Lineare project -- CHAPTER TWO Listening to, and sharing, the experience of growth -- CHAPTER THREE Nursery as therapist: understanding the "present moment" of the child -- CHAPTER FOUR Weaving bonds: Tempo Lineare, a school for life -- PART II HOW THE YOUNG MIND IS BUILT -- CHAPTER FIVE Emotional and cognitive development: from chaotic experiences to experiences made "thinkable" -- CHAPTER SIX Becoming a parent of an adopted child -- CHAPTER SEVEN Primitive protections used by fostered and adopted children -- CHAPTER EIGHT An adopted child developing within a nursery group -- CHAPTER NINE Feeling good, feeling bad -- being good and being bad -- CHAPTER TEN The observation of children with eating difficulties -- PART III COMPASSIONATELY COMPREHENDING CHILDREN PLAYING -- CHAPTER ELEVEN A way of looking at a child that contains and creates meaning -- CHAPTER TWELVE A special time for playing and thinking together -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Developing altruistic skills in Tempo Lineare: "The Island of Puppies" -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Creating space in the family for imagination and creativity -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN Living in a group: children learning to know themselves and others -- PART IV FROM ONE TALE ANOTHER TALE IS BORN -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN The children's fairy tales -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN From tales to life and from life to tales -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN "The Queen of the Caramels" -- PART V THE COUPLE, THE FAMILY, THE GROUP, AND SOCIETY -- CHAPTER NINETEEN Some good reasons to support public services devoted to children -- CHAPTER TWENTY The couple's cradle for the inner child -- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE "The paternal role" in relation to siblings' love, gratitude, greed, and revenge.

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Men in the nursery: a discussion-play group with fathers and their infants and toddlers -- CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Welcoming and listening while working with children, parents, and nursery staff -- PART VI PARENTS CREATING AND COLLABORATING -- CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR The parents speaking -- GLOSSARY -- INDEX.