ABSTRACT
Paulina is 2 years and 8 months of age when she, together with her parents and her 5-year-old sister Sarah, enters the nursery that her older sister Sarah has already been frequenting every day of the working week for the past two years. Paulina has often come along when Sarah was taken here in the mornings or picked up in the afternoons. But now the day has arrived when Paulina’s first proper stay at the day care centre is to begin. The fact that the members of the Young Child Observation seminar gather on a weekly basis contributes to an expansion of the observer’s mental capacities by the group’s thoughtful input, which thus creates the potential of a communal mind search with and within the group. The sessions commence with the observer participating in the weekly Young Child Observation seminar and presenting what is, usually, the most recently completed observation account, by reading it aloud.
