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Synopsis
Explores real-life caregiving situations with reassurance and insight in a story for children and a "Note to Parents" offers essential advice about how to choose a caregiver.
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From Kirkus Reviews
Preschoolers and parents who are about to engage care-givers or baby-sitters will find thoughtful advice here for easing the separation. The care-givers photographed are of several ethnic groups and different ages: teens, mothers with children, and a grandmother; unfortunately, they are all women, and there is no mention of male care-givers. Loomis discusses hiring, setting rules, what to do when children and care-givers disagree, and how to reassure children that their parents love them and will return. Parents are advised to tell a care-giver that when she and the child disagree, and the parent cannot be reached, ``she should go along with your child (unless, of course, doing so would put your child's health or safety at risk) and talk to you about it at the end of the day.'' All of these smiling care-givers devote full time to their young charges; the busy parents all take time for phone calls and sweet reassuring notes to their offspring: too idyllic, but still helpful and warmly reassuring. (Nonfiction. 2-5) -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
From Publishers Weekly
In this lucid, candid guide, Loomis, an editor at Parents magazine, attempts to reduce the anxiety kids--and their parents--commonly experience when faced with a new day-care or baby-sitting situation. In the book's opening pages, addressed to parents, the author advocates communicating with children honestly yet reassuringly--advice she herself follows in the section of her book directed to youngsters. Here she shows children--revealed in Ancona's characteristically sharp, realistic photos--becoming acquainted with an in-home caregiver, a family day-care situation, a night baby-sitter, etc. Sprinkled throughout are questions ("What's your favorite thing to do?") that encourage communication between adult readers and their young listeners. For both groups, this volume offers worthwhile information and advice. Ages 2-up.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherWilliam Morrow & Co
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0688096263
- ISBN 13 9780688096267
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
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