Family & Relationships : Child Care

An easy-to-follow guide to preparing homemade baby food Parents and caregivers can drastically reduce the sugar, salt, artificial additives, and preservatives in a baby’s or toddler’s diet by preparing homemade food. This guide shows how easy it is to create fresh, delicious, wholesome food, from purees for infants to meals for finicky three-year-olds. more...

Price: $19.99

A cutting-edge handbook for parents, from a pioneer in infant brain development, that bridges the gap between the most current neuroscience and practical parenting techniques. Dr. Jill Stamm?s daughter was born almost four months premature, and doctors insisted she would never walk or talk. Now, thirty-two years later, her daughter is living proof that nearly every baby?s brain has the potential to adapt and flourish given the right attention. A leading authority in infant brain development, she makes new, remarkable findings accessible to everyone in Bright from the Start. What babies need is as simple as A, B, C:. ? ATTENTION: including how to increase a child?s attention span, and how to balance stimulation with down time. ? BONDING: illustrating the importance of developing emotional attachment between a child and a consistent caregiver?and why this is key to cognitive development. ? COMMUNICATION: with breakthrough advice for tapping the correlation between verbal engagement with parents and higher IQ rates among children. She also discusses what kind of childcare environment to select, why learning toys don?t teach as much as you think, why reading to a baby is critical, and how you can help your child learn how to pay attention. By working with Dr. Stamm?s ABCs in Bright from the Start, all parents can help to build a radiant future for their precious little ones. more...

Price: $26.00

Vaccines is the story of Florence, a healthy two-year-old girl until 36 hours after her Meningitis C vaccination, when she suffered the first of many terrifying convulsions. Driven by the fear of witnessing Florence suffer months of subsequent illness and the frustration of not being given a cause of the convulsions, her mother, Mary Alexander, began to research the history of inoculation, from its invention by Edward Jenner in 1797 to its present day role in the centre of the autism and MMR controversy. Mixing personal experience with factual research, Alexander examines the status quo of vaccination and highlights the questions she believes should be at the forefront of parents' minds: among others, how can trust in vaccination be restored? Why are GPs paid extra for vaccinating over 90 per cent of their patients? Are parents' expectations of success too high in this medically advanced world? Are all vaccinations necessary? This is not an anti-vaccine book. Instead it seeks to provide parents with the knowledge and curiosity needed to make an informed, confident decision about vaccination. You can share your experiences and views on the great vaccination debate by visiting www.callingtheshots.org . '' more...

Price: $24.95

Child Safety: A Pediatric Guide for Parents, Teachers, Nurses, and Caregivers calls. upon the knowledge of expert pediatricians to empower those who care for children. Adults responsible for a child’s health and safety have a variety of concerns that continue. throughout the child’s development. This pediatric guide covers topics ranging. from basic child safety in the home to the timely issue of terrorism. A parental review board read Child Safety to ensure that the information is pertinent and accessible to a diverse range of caregivers. Readers can quickly access safety information using tables and checklists designed to highlight important points. When it. comes to the safety of a child, there is no time to lose. This thorough and affordable resource gives parents and caregivers the most. important tool for combating safety and health risks: information. Child Safety equips. parents, teachers, nurses, and others with the information they need to protect our. children. Topics discussed include:.:.; Techniques for preventing children from smoking as well as ways to help them quit.; How parents, teachers, and caregivers should discuss terrorism with children.; Specific signs to look for if a child or adolescent appears to be depressed.; Safety tips for children surfing the Internet.; Information on what to do in emergency medical situations.; Methods of disciplining children.; Processes for selecting safe, appropriate childcare settings and providers. more...

Price: $33.00

This study of children's participation in decisions about their care draws on recent work in sociology and anthropology, psychology and legal philosophy in order to understand this challenging area of social life. It also reports on original and groundbreaking research into children's views of decision-making processes. The book has important theoretical implications and important lessons for social welfare policy and practice. It will be of interest to those involved in childhood studies or in qualitative research methods, as well as in social welfare provision. more...

Price: $99.00