🧠 From Curiosity to Confidence: Encouraging Independent Thinking 🧠
🧠 Solving problems
🌈 Making decisions
💪 Bouncing back from challenges
We love activities with no ‘right answer’—like loose parts play, nature exploration, and creative art. These invite children to think creatively and follow their own ideas.
We encourage children to make decisions about their play:
➡️ “What will you build today?”
➡️ “How do you think we could fix it?”
Whether it's putting on their coat or figuring out how to share a toy, we support children with gentle guidance instead of jumping in to fix things. This builds confidence and persistence.
We help children recognise their efforts by saying things like:
🗣️ “You kept trying until it worked!”
🗣️ “You found a different way—great thinking!”
- Letting children take safe risks and test their abilities 🧗♂️
- Praising effort over outcome (“You worked really hard!”)
- Helping children name their feelings when things go wrong
- Giving time and space to try again at their own pace
🔄 Ask open-ended questions: “What do you think will happen if…?”
⏳ Give time to try things themselves before stepping in
🧺 Involve them in everyday decisions—“Which socks today?” or “Shall we clean up together?”
🎉 Celebrate mistakes as learning: “That didn’t work—what could we try instead?”
@BananaMoon - 4 months ago
Get in touch today
We are confident you will appreciate our nursery, its setting and facilities. Should you wish to visit, we are available at any time to meet with you. Any comments or input from parents are always welcome.
Opening Times
We are open 7.30am - 6.30pm
Tunbridge Wells
Banana Moon Day Nursery, 15-17 Upper Grosvenor Road
Tunbridge Wells
TN1 2DU
info@bananamoon-tunbridgewells.co.uk
