Teaching Your Child to Be Home Alone - Softcover

Grollman, Earl A.; Sweder, Gerri L.

9780029127513: Teaching Your Child to Be Home Alone

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0029127513 ISBN 13: 9780029127513

Publisher: Lexington Books, 1998

An estimated eight to 10 million American children are ``latchkey kids'' who after the school day return to an empty house or apartment and take care of themselves until their parents get home from work. This helpful book is written for members of such families to read together.

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About the Author:

Rabbi Earl A. Grollman is an internationally recognized bereavement counselor who has been named Hero of the Heartland and given the Distinguished Human Service Award from Yeshiva University, among countless other awards. He is author of the best-selling Living When a Loved One Has Died (Beacon / 2719-7 / $10.00 pb), among many other books, and articles about him and his work have appeared in USA Today, Harper's, Reader's Digest, Ann Landers, People, and in virtually every major American daily. He lives in Belmont, Massachusetts.

From Publishers Weekly:

An estimated eight to 10 million American children are "latchkey kids" who after the school day return to an empty house or apartment and take care of themselves until their parents get home from work. This helpful book is written for members of such families to read together. Chapters covering situations like loneliness, illness, emergencies and how to use public transportation include brief examples, with follow-up questions for children to consider and a checklist of suggested preparatory steps that can ameliorate the problems illustrated here. Grollman ( Living When a Loved One Has Died ) and Sweder, a child development specialist, conclude with a readiness scale (by which parents can evaluate their child's ability to be left unsupervised), a communication scale and a section for emergency phone numbers.
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