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Drawing on the authors? combined experiences, Developing and Administering an Early Child Care Center, 5E presents the basic philosophies and interpersonal aspects of directing and administering an early childhood center. The book bases its chapters on major aspects of developing and administering a program for young children, addressing the core issues while giving consideration to the experiences of those in the field. The chapters are written to read and follow with ease, and provide many features and activities that engage readers in active learning.
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Excellent for Anyone Starting a Day Care Center.......2000-08-09
I'm in the middle of opening a day care center and this book was great. It contained alot of useful information and I constantly referenced the manual throughout the process. It contained all the forms that you will need from hiring, registration to immunizations. It is a must have.
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The Feeding Bible.......2007-08-09
If you are a speech language pathologist or occupational therapist working with children with feeding disorders, you must have this book!!! It is huge and has everything you need to know. Buy it!!
Fantastic resource!.......2007-05-14
This book is so well written, and truly is pretty darn "comprehensive", as the title says. The authors start with normal development, and lead you through the evaluation, goal writing and treatment process in such a coherent way. Many examples of actual children really help illustrate their points. Considering the cost of attending a feeding seminar, the price of this book is a good deal. Only wish I had time to read the book from front-to-back (it is over 600 pages).
Excellent resource!.......2001-08-15
This is an excellent resource that every feeding therapist should own. The authors do not target one pediatric developmental stage but infancy through childhood. They thoroughly review normal anatomy and physiology relating to feeding and swallowing as well as complications and treatment options. The feeding experience is not isolated to anatomy and physiology but recognized as an experience with many psychoemotional and environmental factors.
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Health, Safety, and Nutrition for the Young Child
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"Health, Safety and Nutrition for the Young Child, 5th Edition" is the early childhood professional's concise, up-to-date and thought provoking guide to promoting good health and safety for children. Completely updated, this 5th edition reflects the latest developments and practices in the field. Several new features have been added such as case studies, "For your consideration" and "Reflective thoughts" segments that encourage discussion, and World Wide Web sites to encourage research on the topics presented. The book also includes a complete overview of basic nutrition designed to help students, teachers, caregivers and parents better understand the critical value of good health and nutrition.
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satisfied .......2006-03-18
Book was delivered quickly and in good condition, Got a great deal and more than i expected would definitely order again
I am completely satisfied with my order and Amazon.com.......2006-02-24
I ordered my book on the 31st of December and I recieved it by the 3rd of January. I use my book for school and it has really helped me alot.
Health, Safety, and Nutrition for the Young Child.......2006-02-19
good book alot of interesting information, it has helped me in my classes for daycare
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A good place to start learning what is safe and healthy........2004-05-12
My review is based on the 3rd edition of this book. This book was required reading in my early childhood education program. It is a great introduction to what is safe, healty, and nutritious for children. A simple straight forward approach to information about children that every parent and/or caregiver should know.
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Dibs in Search of Self
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The classic of child therapy. Dibs will not talk. He will not play. He has locked himself in a very special prison. And he is alone. This is the true story of how he learned to reach out for the sunshine, for life . . . how he came to the breathless discovery of himself that brought him back to the world of other children.
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Amazing description of psychotherapy.......2007-08-27
I have read this book several times because it always refreshes my enthusiam for the possiblities that psychotherapy can offer. The sesnsitivity of the therapist in her interventions illustrate beautifully how non-interference and genuine feeling can be such a helpful way to help a person become in touch with themselves.
great book.......2007-06-27
I didn't truely u/s the impact of play therapy till i read this book. it is dated, but it is a classic and a must read for therapist etc.
Interesting, but Completely True?.......2007-06-06
This is the allegedly true story of a five-year-old boy. His name has been changed to protect him, but in this book he is called Dibs. His parents are wealthy and very well educated. They are baffled by their son, who is in a special school for bright children even though he seems to show no signs of being bright. He almost never speaks, and when he does it is mainly during tantrums, and in short babyish sentences. Dibs' parents think he may have some sort of mental retardation, but his teachers at school don't see the symptoms for mental retardation in him. He seems to listen, although he pretends he doesn't. He studies things for long periods of time, and sits with books as though he is reading them. However, he avoids interacting with people and becomes very agitated when he has to leave school for the day and go home.
Dibs' parents are at the end of their patience. They are willing to try anything to get their son's behavior under control, and to figure out if he is a normal child with behavior problems or if he does have some sort of problem. They agree to the consultation of Dr. Axline, a child therapist specializing in play therapy.
This book chronicles the play therapy sessions Dr. Axline has over the course of about a year with Dibs. As Dibs becomes more and more comfortable with her and with their time together, he begins to let more and more of his feeling out, which reveal what his home life is really like and why he has withdrawn so dramatically into himself. As these sessions go on, Dibs begins to emerge as an extremely bright and articulate boy who just needs to feel safe in order to blossom.
It was interesting to read the actual conversations the doctor had with Dibs. It made me think twice about how I interact with young children and how they might interpret my reactions. However, I was skeptical about the complete validity of this book. I found it astonishing that such a small child could have such a command of language and of the world around him. I found myself wondering if the things he said had been embellished or edited in such a way to make him sound brighter than he was. His intelligence in this story made me doubt the realism of the rest of the book.
Great read!.......2007-02-18
I absolutely loved this book. It gives the reader an up-close and personal perspective of the power of play therapy for children. I had to read it for a class on play therapy I was taking, and I read it very quickly. It was hard to put down. Definitely worth reading, especially if you have an interest working with kids or in play therapy.
A classic!.......2006-06-26
"Dibs" is an awesome classic every counselor and/or play therapist will love! And even if you're not in the helping field - its a GOOD read!
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Child care administrators will greatly value the business skills detailed in The Business of Child Care: Managment and Financial Strategies. With particular focus on managing enrollment, recruiting and retaining staff, budgeting, financial record keeping, and decision making, this book details the critical business elements needed to run a child care center as a financially stable enterprise. The reader will learn how to successfully complete business tasks more quickly and accurately, with greater understanding and more enjoyment, by focusing on the most important tasks of an administrator. The accompanying CD-ROM offers easy-to-follow financial spreadsheets that can be implemented in any child care setting.
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Joyce Maguire Pavao dedicates her book The Family of Adoption in part to her two mothers, who died two weeks apart. "They both died of secrecy," she writes. "One could no longer talk, silenced by her disease. One could no longer think or remember.... I love and cherish what each of my mothers endured and imparted.... I refuse to have secrets and I work to change a system that perpetrates them."
Pavao is a nationally known family and adoption therapist who works with adoptive children and their families. Her authority and insight come from her combined experience both as a professional therapist and as an adopted child. In The Family of Adoption, Pavao describes the grief processes, dilemmas, and potentials for healing of birth mothers and adoptive parents. A strong advocate for adopted children, she discusses the difference between secrecy and privacy--a crucial distinction in adoption--and lends a strong voice to the movement for openness. Pavao is the first specialist to clearly identify and demonstrate predictable, understandable developmental stages and challenges for every adoptee (pointing out, for example, that adopted children tend to daydream, and may have a more challenging adolescence), and elucidates patterns that adoptive parents may witness as their children grow.
As adoption becomes more discussed and less taboo, the emotional road maps become clearer for adoptive families, birth mothers, and children of adoption. The Family of Adoption is a gentle, essential addition to the literature that will help guide families of adoption along the path. --Ericka Lutz
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"An important voice in the spirited public debate over what 'the best interests of the child' are in the . . . untidy world of adoption."-Joseph P. Kahn, Boston Globe Joyce Maguire Pavao understands the many perspectives that come into the complicated process of adoption, and she works to make the process comfortable for all participants. As a pioneering and nationally recognized family and adoption therapist, Pavao argues eloquently in The Family of Adoption that there are predictable and understandable developmental stages and challenges for every adoptee. Pavao feels that adoptive parents, as well as teachers, therapists, and all those who work with children, must come to understand these developmental stages as normal-often challenging, but normal. Full of wonderful stories that give insight into a wide variety of adoption issues, and now updated with a consideration of recent developments, The Family of Adoption is a powerful argument for the right kind of openness; it is truly the most insightful and healing book on the adoption shelf. "We've long needed a book like Pavao's, which looks at adoption as an idea and a process . . . I recommend it to all readers who are affected by adoption, and isn't that all of us?" -Mary Pipher, author of Reviving Ophelia "A commitment to placing the best interests of the child first informs every page of this excellent study of the complex psychological and social dynamics of adoptive families." -Publishers Weekly
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Great reading for anyone touched by adoption.......2006-03-01
This book is an excellent discussion of the ways adoption is experienced by all members of the triad, with particular emphasis on the normal developmental issues adoptees face at different times of their lives. Joyce Maguire Pavao is clear and forthright, sensitive and reassuring. Her wise insight is illustrated with examples and the poetry of adoptees. I highly recommend this book.
Adoption Attorney's Praise for The Family of Adoption.......2006-02-26
As the attorney for many adoptive families I sometimes find myself filling in information that social workers haven't provided, or at least haven't provided in a way that the family understood. A couple of issues that come up often are, "I've been told that adoption is not the same as birth parenting, but exactly how is it different?" and "How will adoption affect my child through out his or her childhood." I find that many families do not understand these issues before they adopt. This is the perfect book to put in the hand of a prospective family. It is also great for families experiencing adoption related challenges who feel that they are unique and alone. This book gives them comfort and understand. It is a great resource. It is short too, families like. Thank you Dr. Pavao.
If you only read one.......2006-02-22
As an adoptive mother, I have read and collected a shelf full of books on the subject of adoption. Joyce Pavao's well researched and thoughtful book, The Family of Adoption, is one of the very best. It's the first book that I recommend to anyone interested in or touched by adoption.
Joyce Pavao, herself adopted, encourages the reader to look at adoption from all perspectives. She shows us that understanding the important connections that exists between birth family, adoptive family and adoptee is essential to appreciating the complex emotions that accompany these bonds. Her careful explanations helped me to understand that although our daughter's birthmother is half a world away, she has always been a very real part of our family. Pavao uses poignant examples, selected from her years a therapist, to illustrate how adoption effects all members of the triad. Her use of real life scenarios brings much needed clarity to some very complicated concepts and makes this book very readable.
Included in the chapters devoted to the adoptee at various ages, is useful advise on how to talk to your child about adoption in age appropriate ways. She also gives simple, understandable advise for parents to help their children process information and feelings in different ways at different developmental stages. She helps the reader understand how each new developmental stage presents a unique set of challenges for the adopted person and how some seemingly troubling behaviors can result.
In The Family of Adoption, Pavao presents a very complex subject in a very straight forward and understandable way. She also provides useful and practical advise in a book that that is ultimately informative and very readable.
Dr. Pavao knows her stuff.......2006-02-21
Dr. Pavao understands adoption from a variety of perspectives. She has great depth of knowledge and insight into the world of adoptive families and the triad.
Clear, thoughtful, and empathetic........2006-02-21
I've enjoyed hearing Dr. Pavao discuss adoption as "a normative crisis" for all concerned and I'm happy this seminal work has reached so many who've not had that pleasure. I've regularly given this book to clinicans in social service as well as colleagues who are touched by adoption (which seems to be most everyone the older I get!). If you're looking for a book that emphasizes the "child's best interest," this is it.
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Telling a child he or she is adopted can be a trying task, but this is only the first step. After becoming aware that he or she is adopted, the child will question the details of the adoption. The truth may reveal details that are painful and sometimes traumatic: a parent is in prison, a drug addict, or even a rapist. In Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child, Keefer and Schooler demonstrate that in even the most difficult situations, foster and adoptive parents must not withhold or distort information about the past. Though sometimes including difficult truths, communication between a caregiver or parent and foster or adopted child can help a child grow up into an emotionally and psychologically healthy adult. Providing help for parents or caregivers wishing to productively communicate with their child, Keefer and Schooler answer such questions as: How do I share difficult information about my child's adoption in a sensitive manner? When is the right time to tell my child the whole truth? How do I find further information on my child's history? Age appropriate guidelines will make an arduous task organized and easier. Detailed descriptions of actual cases help the parent or caregiver find ways to discover the truth (particularly in closed and international adoption cases), organize the truth, and explain the truth gently to a toddler, child, or young adult that may be horrified by it. Parents, teachers, counselors, and other caregivers will come away from this reading with a sharper knowledge of how to make sense of the past for foster and adopted children of all ages.
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A Very Important Resource.......2007-09-02
All parents who have adopted a child with a difficult birth family history should read this book. Parents natural tendency is to protect their child from information that they fear will hurt the child or damage their self-esteem. The authors do a great job of explaining why children need to be told the truth, in an age-appropriate manner at the appropriate time. This book helped to resolve doubts I had on this issue.
Christine Mitchell, author and illustrator of Welcome Home, Forever Child: A Celebration of Children Adopted as Toddlers, Preschoolers, and Beyond
Very specific and helpful resource.......2007-08-09
I am so pleased that I found this book. I have already recommended it to several people I know. If you are not sure IF or HOW you should talk to your child about being a foster or adopted child, then you need to read this book. If you don't know how much to tell the child and what information is age-appropriate, then you need to read this book. Great practical advice broken down by age groups and situations so your situation is addressed. As with all books giving advice, it is helpful to read a variety and see what feels best for you. I know for me, this book answered the questions that other books only brought up as problems.
A must read.......2007-04-04
If there is any part of your child's past that you wish to shelter them from, then read this book. It helps you figure out how to tell the truth without over sharing and guide your children through the grief and loss process. Excellent.
Informative and compassionate.......2003-09-11
Keefer & Schooler have given us an excellent and substantive guide on numerous issues concerning adoption, notably how to tell children about adoption, how to handle adolescents' feelings. Unlike some other writers who think that children as young as 2-1/2 can understand and conceptualize the ideas of birth and adoption, Keefer and Schooler recognize that only by age eight do children have the ability to think in abstract terms and begin to understand the meaning of adoption. (In their book, Openness in Adoption, Exploring Family Connections, Harold D. Grotevant and Ruth G. McRoy found that only at the mean age of 10.5, age range 8.0-12.1, is the adoption relationship fully understood with its characterized permanency.) Schooler's description of the adoptee's various developmental stages is worded such that it appears all adoptees grieve, go through stages of anger and during adolescence experience an identity crisis. The adopted youths 'identity may fluctuate with their current fantasy of the birth family.' I am puzzled by our daughter who insists that she has never suffered an identity crisis. She has grown up with many adopted children, some of whom suffered such a crisis, others did not. Some studies of identity crises in adoptees and nonadoptees have shown no significant differences between the groups, so that 'adoptive status itself cannot produce a negative identity.' One study showed that nonsearchers had more positive self-concepts than searchers and overall self-esteem, identity, family self, physical self, self-satisfaction. These nonsearchers had less concern than searchers about their own background.
But research results are like see-saws: One result says green, the other says red. It's bewildering and cause for caution not to generalize. Gisela Gasper Fitzgerald, author of ADOPTION: An Open, Semi-Open or Closed Practice?
Excellent!.......2002-07-10
This book is wonderful! It communicates well; gives sound advice about when and how to tell children about adoption. It gives advice on how to deal with children and adolescents' feelings surrounding adoption issues. Addresses domestic as well as international adoption issues. Etc.
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Great book with HELPFUL advice.......2002-04-17
My mom, sister in law and I are in the process of opening our own daycare center--we find that this book is very helpful-with suggestions on where to get a buisness loan, to how to look for the perfect location to setting up the center itself, it can't be beat. We know nothing about getting a buisness started but we love children and this book reinforced our desire to take the leap into the unknown.
Absolutely wonderful resource!
More of a Center Book.......2001-05-10
This book was not as helpful as I really thought it was going to be. I am opening a daycare in my home and this books speaks quite abit about how to run your own daycare "Center". She talks about finding space, getting a loan, buying "Center" equipment. So if you are going to open your own "Center" then its great - but for all of you who are getting your licence to run it out of your home - try something else - especially for the price of the book ! YIKES!
Great Reading.......2000-06-03
Great Book! It was easy to read and I especially enjoyed the lessons learned from child care professionals referenced throughout the book. Provided practical knowledge on everything from up-start, grand opening to dealing with difficult situations like child abuse. Also get Profitable Child Care by Nan Howkins
Excellent step by step instructions on opening day care.......1999-09-22
this book outlines everything from the concept, agencies, equipment, staff to hire, keeping good staff, parent involvement, and much more. Easy to read and understand instructions.
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Nearly three-quarters of American mothers work full- or part-time--usually out of financial necessity--and require regular child care. How do such arrangements affect children? If they are not at home with their mothers, will they be badly behaved, intellectually delayed, or emotionally stunted?
Backed by the best current research, Alison Clarke-Stewart and Virginia Allhusen bring a reassuring answer to parents' fears and offer guidance for making difficult decisions. Quality child care, they show, may be even more beneficial to children than staying at home. Although children who spend many hours in care may be unruly compared with children at home, those who attend quality programs tend to be cognitively ahead of their peers. They are just as attached to their mothers and reap the additional benefits of engaging with other children.
Ultimately, it's parents who matter most; what happens at home makes the difference in how children develop. And today's working mothers actually spend more time interacting with their children than stay-at-home mothers did a generation ago.
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