Love and Limits in and Out of Child Care - What Your Child Care Provider and Your Pediatrician Want You to Know

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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 frustrationsCharmingly illustrated by award-winning children's book illustrator Susanna Natti, this invaluable resource will guide and reassure all parents. Zusammenfassung Offers parents and caregivers a guide for the journey of parenting happy, healthy children. This book offers a peek into a child-care situation along with advice on medical and developmental issues of real concern to parents. It provides parents with strategies for deciding which day-care situation is best.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Dobberteen, Dobberteen Lisa, Susanna Natti, Natti Susanna, Margaret Thomas, Margaret Thomas Thomas, Richard Thomas
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.06.2008
• EAN: 9780801887987
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8798-7
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Babysitting, Day Care & Child Care, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / General, Child care & upbringing, Child care and upbringing: advice for parents