Love and Limits In and Out of Child Care: What Your Child Care Provider and Your Pediatrician Want You to Know
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Love and Limits In and Out of Child Care: What Your Child Care Provider and Your Pediatrician Want You to Know
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Overview
Drawing on the authors' expertise in their respective fields, Love and Limits offers a peek into an ideal child care situation along with advice on medical and developmental issues of real concern to parents. Conversations between Peggy Thomas and Dr. Dobberteen highlight the authors' shared view about the value of loving routines—love and limits—in raising children today. Whether their young children are in full- or part-time child care settings or at home, families will find the combination of common-sense parenting advice and medical insight just right for today's complex world.
With a healthy balance of time-proven wisdom and up-to-date medical information, the book offers parents proven strategies for deciding which day-care situation is best, along with practical tips for
• establishing bedtime routines• getting along with others• negotiating the logistics of child care—sick days, payment, vacations, and more• enticing picky eaters to eat • keeping toddlers occupied during travel• selecting first aid essentials—what to keep on hand• helping children cope with problems and frustrations
Charmingly illustrated by award-winning children's book illustrator Susanna Natti, this invaluable resource will guide and reassure all parents.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780801887987 |
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| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Publication date: | 05/15/2008 |
| Pages: | 224 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.53(d) |
| Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
Retired from the M.I.T. Libraries, Richard Thomas writes from home. His travel articles and essays have appeared in the Boston Globe, Porthole Cruise Magazine, and Cambridge Chronicle.
Lisa Dobberteen, M.D., is a practicing pediatrician and an associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.
Table of Contents
AcknowledgmentsPreface: About Us, and About This Book1. A New Baby! Becoming a Parent Today2. Love Limits: Raising Happy, Secure Children3. The Nuts and Bolts of Child Care: Hours, Logistics, and Communicating with Your Caregiver4. Is There Something Different about My Baby? When You're Worried There's a Problem5. What Makes a Family? Finding Your Own Way6. If You've Chosen Your Child: Growing Your Family through Adoption7. What's to Eat? Raising a Healthy Eater8. Don't Eat the Peanut Butter: Dealing with Children's Allergies9. Time for Bed: Just a Sprinkling of Fairy Dust10. The Crying Baby: What Does She Need, and When to Worry?11. I Have to Use the Potty: The Ins and Outs of Toilet Training12. He's Just Shy: Your Child's Temperament13. No Hitting! The Aggressive Child14. Quit Picking on Your Sister! Raising Siblings in Imperfect Harmony15. Say Please! Good Manners in Young Children16. I Want a Puppy! Pets and Children17. Come Fly with Me! Traveling with Children18. Disasters: When Scary Things Happen in the World19. Fun and Games: Encouraging Imaginative Play20. Read Me a Story: Fostering a Love of Reading21. To Grandmother's House We Go: Grandparents and Children22. Let's Go to the Park! Keeping Children Active23. Our Busy Lives: Scheduling and Overscheduling Children24. Transitions: Helping Young Children Cope with ChangeAfterword: Just One More ThingWeb-based and Other Resources for ParentsIndexWhat People are Saying About This
While Peggy was caring for my children, she was also caring for me, teaching me about my own children, and providing support like an aunt or mother. It's wonderful that other parents can now have the benefit of Peggy's advice and support by reading this charming book!
— Julie Strong, Lexington, Massachusetts
We are deeply grateful to Peggy for the care of our two daughters. Always a source of practical advice for health and behavior problems, Peggy is a godsend!
— Cathy and Curt Vouwie, Manchester by the Sea, Massachusetts
Peggy's down-to-earth wisdom helped us raise our children. Love and Limits brings a no-nonsense, loving grandmother and a sensitive pediatrician right into your own home!
— Marlene Booth and Avi Soifer, Honolulu, Hawaii
The best advice we can give any new mother is 'Listen to Peggy.' In eleven years (and counting) of leaving our children in her care, she has never steered us wrong. When our sons are with Peggy, they take their naps, eat vegetables, pick up their toys, and are smiling at the end of the day.
— Lisa and Ron Walsworth, Newton, Massachusetts
We are deeply grateful to Peggy for the care of our two daughters. Always a source of practical advice for health and behavior problems, Peggy is a godsend!—Cathy and Curt Vouwie, Manchester by the Sea, Massachusetts
The best advice we can give any new mother is 'Listen to Peggy.' In eleven years (and counting) of leaving our children in her care, she has never steered us wrong. When our sons are with Peggy, they take their naps, eat vegetables, pick up their toys, and are smiling at the end of the day.—Lisa and Ron Walsworth, Newton, Massachusetts
Peggy's down-to-earth wisdom helped us raise our children. Love and Limits brings a no-nonsense, loving grandmother and a sensitive pediatrician right into your own home!—Marlene Booth and Avi Soifer, Honolulu, Hawaii
While Peggy was caring for my children, she was also caring for me, teaching me about my own children, and providing support like an aunt or mother. It's wonderful that other parents can now have the benefit of Peggy's advice and support by reading this charming book!—Julie Strong, Lexington, Massachusetts