Love and Limits in and Out of Child Care: What Your Child Care Provider and Your Pediatrician Want You to Know

Love and Limits in and Out of Child Care offers parents and caregivers a trusty guidebook for the journey of parenting happy, healthy children. Coauthored by daycare 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 medical and developmental issues of real concern to parents. Conversations between Peggy Thomas and Dr. Dobberteen highlight the authors’ shared view about the value of loving routines - love and limits - in raising children today. Whether their young children are in full- or part-time child-care settings or at home, families will find the combination of common-sense advice and medical acumen just right for today’s complex world.Charmingly illustrated by award-winning children’s book illustrator Susanna Natti, the book offers parents proven strategies for deciding which day-care situation is best.