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Being with babies : understanding and responding to the infants in your care / Beverly Kovach, Denise Da Ros-Voseles.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Beltsville, MD : Gryphon House, c2008.Description: 195 p. : ill. ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 0876590628
  • 9780876590621
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Parent/Teacher Resource Collection-Children's 649.122 K88 Available 33111006981910
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Being with Babies is a great resource for both beginning and experienced caregivers. Each chapter includes information on the developmental stages of babies and describes issues that caregivers face every day. The book offers scenarios that illustrate these challenges, then suggests solutions caregivers can use to address the issues while still meeting the needs of the babies. It concludes with a review of key points. Being with Babies helps caregivers handle everyday challenges with ease. This hands-on resource is perfect for caregivers of children six weeks to eighteen months old, as well as for staff development and resource libraries.

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.

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