Love and Limits in and Out of Child Care

What Your Child Care Provider and Your Pediatrician Want You to Know
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8018-8798-7
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 209 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

Love and Limits In and Out of Child Care is a roadmap for parenting happy, healthy children. Coauthored by day care provider Margaret (Peggy) Thomas, her husband, Richard, and Lisa Dobberteen, a pediatrician who entrusted her own children to Peggy's care, this is an enjoyable and educational guide to everything from TV watching to toilet training.

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thomas, Margaret

Thomas, Richard

Dobberteen, Lisa

Natti, Susanna

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizin, Gesundheit: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Pädiatrie, Neonatologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogik: Sachbuch, Ratgeber

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Preface: About Us, and About This Book
1. A New Baby! Becoming a Parent Today
2. Love Limits: Raising Happy, Secure Children
3. The Nuts and Bolts of Child Care: Hours, Logistics, and Communicating with Your Caregiver
4. Is There Something Different about My Baby? When You're Worried There's a Problem
5. What Makes a Family? Finding Your Own Way
6. If You've Chosen Your Child: Growing Your Family through Adoption
7. What's to Eat? Raising a Healthy Eater
8. Don't Eat the Peanut Butter: Dealing with Children's Allergies
9. Time for Bed: Just a Sprinkling of Fairy Dust
10. The Crying Baby: What Does She Need, and When to Worry?
11. I Have to Use the Potty: The Ins and Outs of Toilet Training
12. He's Just Shy: Your Child's Temperament
13. No Hitting! The Aggressive Child
14. Quit Picking on Your Sister! Raising Siblings in Imperfect Harmony
15. Say Please! Good Manners in Young Children
16. I Want a Puppy! Pets and Children
17. Come Fly with Me! Traveling with Children
18. Disasters: When Scary Things Happen in the World
19. Fun and Games: Encouraging Imaginative Play
20. Read Me a Story: Fostering a Love of Reading
21. To Grandmother's House We Go: Grandparents and Children
22. Let's Go to the Park! Keeping Children Active
23. Our Busy Lives: Scheduling and Overscheduling Children
24. Transitions: Helping Young Children Cope with Change
Afterword: Just One More Thing
Web-based and Other Resources for Parents
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas, Richard
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.

Thomas, Margaret
Margaret Thomas has been providing child care in her Cambridge, Massachusetts, home for over 45 years.

Dobberteen, Lisa
Lisa Dobberteen, M.D., is a practicing pediatrician and an associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.

Margaret Thomas has been providing child care in her Cambridge, Massachusetts, home for over 45 years. 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.