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The interactions with children – the way staff talk, hold them, respond to their emotions – is always affected by the fact that this is a professional relationship. There is a necessary coolness to everything. Eye contact is not the same. There is no time for long, peaceful, intimate moments. Concern has to be tempered, empathy withheld, because another ten or 20 children are there right now, ready to make their claim. In fact, staff would be in trouble – and we would be concerned – if they showed real affection and attachment to any particular child. What nursery staff offer is care, but it isn’t love, and the difference is vast.