Love and Limits In and Out of Child Care offers parents and caregivers a trusty guidebook for the journey of parenting happy, healthy children.Co-authored by day-care provider Margaret (Peggy) Thomas, her husband Richard, and Lisa Dobberteen, a paediatrician 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 routineslove 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 advice and medical acumen just right or today's complex world.Charmingly illustrated by award-winning children's book illustrator Susanna Natti, this invaluable resource will guide and reassure all parents.
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 ParentsIndex
