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(More customer reviews)This book is an important reference. The author (Nettie Becker) is quite the expert in child development and she writes about her interactions with at-risk youngsters living in a homeless shelter for women and their children. The author writes frankly about how the overwhelmed, underqualified, poorly paid child-care workers add to the problems of these at-risk children. Instead of trying to heal these children using positive guidance and nurturing care, the child-care workers try to exert their authority over these already emotionally-damaged children. It is about time that some of the experts in the field are finally saying something about how these aggressive, harsh, control-freak, authoritarian child-care workers are further traumatizing these at-risk young children. The author tried her best to model appropriate behavior with her interactions with these at-risk children in the shelter. Ms.Becker (the authoer) modeled proper behavior in the hopes that the child-care workers would "get the message" and would start being a little nicer to the children. From what Ms. Becker noted, it seems that the "it's my way or the highway" drill-sargeant child-care workers ignored all this and continued to run their child-care center more like kennel for vicious dogs. This book is enlightening and heartbreaking at the same time, but it is full of hope. Ms. Becker writes about various techniques to use to help to reverse the damage caused by poorly-attached, unstable mothers who leave their children in the care of insensitive, poorly-qualified child-care workers.
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An increasing number of people in our country today acknowledge the fact that there is an enormous crisis in the field of early child care. The first chapter of this book examines the major reasons for the crisis and why the economic reality for most American households will cause the problem to continue to grow in the coming years.Following this, the second chapter discusses the criteria of a good early child care setup, based on professional literature in the field and the authors experience.The remainder of the book addresses the serious problem that most day-care workers are very poorly trained for their jobs. Six chapters are devoted to providing a practical guide for people who work with young children.They discuss, from current research in the field but without using technical language, current practical methods of working with children-at-risk or those who may potentially be at-risk. The focus ison working with children in groups, helping day-care workers and substitute parents to minimize or remediate the at-risk factor in the children in their care.The book also addresses parents of these children and emphasizes the need for cooperation between day-care workers and them so that child care providers can effectively convey the skills presented here. There is also a chapter on approaches to working with special children, such as children with autism, and those with physical or neurological impairments.This informative and sensitive book will be useful in advancing the training of workers in infant and early child care settings.
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