Love and Limits In and Out of Child Care
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Love and Limits In and Out of Child Care is a roadmap for parenting happy, healthy children. Coauthored by day care provider Margaret (Peggy) Thomas, her husband, Richard, and Lisa Dobberteen, a pediatrician who entrusted her own children to Peggy's care, this is an enjoyable and educational guide to everything from TV watching to toilet training. Drawing on the authors' expertise in their respective fields, Love and Limits offers a peek into an ideal child care situation along with advice on me
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This practical parenting guide delivers a refreshingly balanced approach to raising children, blending emotional connection with clear boundaries from three distinct expert perspectives. Drawing from decades of hands-on childcare experience, pediatric medical knowledge, and parental insight, the book tackles everyday challenges from screen time management to potty training with real-world applicability. The collaborative authorship creates a multidimensional view of child development that feels both professionally grounded and personally tested. Readers get an inside look at what constitutes quality care while receiving actionable strategies for implementing these principles at home.
What sets this resource apart is its seamless integration of heart-centered parenting with practical limit-setting, demonstrating how affection and structure work in tandem rather than opposition. The advice carries extra credibility coming from a pediatrician who personally chose this childcare approach for her own family, validating the methods through professional and personal endorsement. Parents seeking to create consistent environments both inside and outside their homes will find particularly valuable guidance here. This book ultimately provides the tools to build nurturing relationships while establishing the boundaries children need to thrive.
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