Meeting the Need for Child Care
Title | Meeting the Need for Child Care PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Employment and Housing Subcommittee |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 294 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Child care |
ISBN |
Cribsheet
Title | Cribsheet PDF eBook |
Author | Emily Oster |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 354 |
Release | 2019-04-23 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 0525559264 |
From the author of Expecting Better and The Family Firm, an economist's guide to the early years of parenting. “Both refreshing and useful. With so many parenting theories driving us all a bit batty, this is the type of book that we need to help calm things down.” —LA Times “The book is jampacked with information, but it’s also a delightful read because Oster is such a good writer.” —NPR With Expecting Better, award-winning economist Emily Oster spotted a need in the pregnancy market for advice that gave women the information they needed to make the best decision for their own pregnancies. By digging into the data, Oster found that much of the conventional pregnancy wisdom was wrong. In Cribsheet, she now tackles an even greater challenge: decision-making in the early years of parenting. As any new parent knows, there is an abundance of often-conflicting advice hurled at you from doctors, family, friends, and strangers on the internet. From the earliest days, parents get the message that they must make certain choices around feeding, sleep, and schedule or all will be lost. There's a rule—or three—for everything. But the benefits of these choices can be overstated, and the trade-offs can be profound. How do you make your own best decision? Armed with the data, Oster finds that the conventional wisdom doesn't always hold up. She debunks myths around breastfeeding (not a panacea), sleep training (not so bad!), potty training (wait until they're ready or possibly bribe with M&Ms), language acquisition (early talkers aren't necessarily geniuses), and many other topics. She also shows parents how to think through freighted questions like if and how to go back to work, how to think about toddler discipline, and how to have a relationship and parent at the same time. Economics is the science of decision-making, and Cribsheet is a thinking parent's guide to the chaos and frequent misinformation of the early years. Emily Oster is a trained expert—and mom of two—who can empower us to make better, less fraught decisions—and stay sane in the years before preschool.
Meeting the Need for Child Care
Title | Meeting the Need for Child Care PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Employment and Housing Subcommittee |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 290 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Child care |
ISBN |
Meeting the Need for School-age Child Care
Title | Meeting the Need for School-age Child Care PDF eBook |
Author | Lesia Oesterreich |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 7 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | School-age child care |
ISBN |
Meeting the Needs of Today's Workforce
Title | Meeting the Needs of Today's Workforce PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 44 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Child care services |
ISBN |
From Neurons to Neighborhoods
Title | From Neurons to Neighborhoods PDF eBook |
Author | National Research Council |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Total Pages | 610 |
Release | 2000-11-13 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0309069882 |
How we raise young children is one of today's most highly personalized and sharply politicized issues, in part because each of us can claim some level of "expertise." The debate has intensified as discoveries about our development-in the womb and in the first months and years-have reached the popular media. How can we use our burgeoning knowledge to assure the well-being of all young children, for their own sake as well as for the sake of our nation? Drawing from new findings, this book presents important conclusions about nature-versus-nurture, the impact of being born into a working family, the effect of politics on programs for children, the costs and benefits of intervention, and other issues. The committee issues a series of challenges to decision makers regarding the quality of child care, issues of racial and ethnic diversity, the integration of children's cognitive and emotional development, and more. Authoritative yet accessible, From Neurons to Neighborhoods presents the evidence about "brain wiring" and how kids learn to speak, think, and regulate their behavior. It examines the effect of the climate-family, child care, community-within which the child grows.
Community Solutions for Child Care : Report of a Conference
Title | Community Solutions for Child Care : Report of a Conference PDF eBook |
Author | Diana E. Friedman |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 120 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Community health services for children |
ISBN |
Conference report on solutions for child care problems in the USA - defines the need for child care facilities under community responsibility, considers various sources of financing, describes successful experiences in child care programmes, discusses arrangements for parent education, role of business and social services, transportation, etc., And includes recommendations and a directory of useful addresses. List of participants. References and statistical tables. Conference held in Washington 1979 mar 7 and 8.