Being with babies : understanding and responding to the infants in your care /
Kovach, Beverly.
Being with babies : understanding and responding to the infants in your care / Beverly Kovach, Denise Da Ros-Voseles. - Beltsville, MD : Gryphon House, c2008. - 195 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-186) and index.
Challenge: caring for infants in a child-care setting -- Authentic caregiving -- Believing that babies are capable -- Trial and error: the way capable babies learn -- Primary caregiving -- Three Rs: respectful, responsive, and reciprocal caregiving -- Stop and look: the key to observation -- Giving time: the art of slowing down -- Cues are clues -- What do babies need? -- Baby is the curriculum -- Caregiver, an important part of the curriculum -- PR for infants: supporting predictable routines -- Valuing and respecting babies -- Communicating with babies -- Babies communicate by crying -- How infants interact with each other -- Quality time with infants -- Providing just enough help to babies -- Babies learn by struggling -- Discovering and exploring: the value of play -- Diapering is a two-way street -- Eating: food for thought -- Rest stop -- Learn to move, move to learn -- Speak to not at: supporting babies' language development -- Objects: not too many and not too few -- Room environment: the place and the space -- Watch those interruptions! -- Reflect instead of praise -- To touch or not to touch: there is no question -- Quality care -- Working together with families -- Questions frequently asked by families -- Nurturing the caregiver -- Building team spirit -- Appendix: Developmental chart -- Sample floor plan -- Daily observation form.
Offers beginning and experienced caregivers an overview of the issues they may face on a day-to-day basis while caring for infants and offers effective solutions for each issue.
0876590628 9780876590621
2007050963
Child care workers.
Infants--Care.
Being with babies : understanding and responding to the infants in your care / Beverly Kovach, Denise Da Ros-Voseles. - Beltsville, MD : Gryphon House, c2008. - 195 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-186) and index.
Challenge: caring for infants in a child-care setting -- Authentic caregiving -- Believing that babies are capable -- Trial and error: the way capable babies learn -- Primary caregiving -- Three Rs: respectful, responsive, and reciprocal caregiving -- Stop and look: the key to observation -- Giving time: the art of slowing down -- Cues are clues -- What do babies need? -- Baby is the curriculum -- Caregiver, an important part of the curriculum -- PR for infants: supporting predictable routines -- Valuing and respecting babies -- Communicating with babies -- Babies communicate by crying -- How infants interact with each other -- Quality time with infants -- Providing just enough help to babies -- Babies learn by struggling -- Discovering and exploring: the value of play -- Diapering is a two-way street -- Eating: food for thought -- Rest stop -- Learn to move, move to learn -- Speak to not at: supporting babies' language development -- Objects: not too many and not too few -- Room environment: the place and the space -- Watch those interruptions! -- Reflect instead of praise -- To touch or not to touch: there is no question -- Quality care -- Working together with families -- Questions frequently asked by families -- Nurturing the caregiver -- Building team spirit -- Appendix: Developmental chart -- Sample floor plan -- Daily observation form.
Offers beginning and experienced caregivers an overview of the issues they may face on a day-to-day basis while caring for infants and offers effective solutions for each issue.
0876590628 9780876590621
2007050963
Child care workers.
Infants--Care.