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Kid Tips: Proven Child-Care Tips from Experienced Parents Across the Country - Softcover

McMahon, Tom

 
9780671026097: Kid Tips: Proven Child-Care Tips from Experienced Parents Across the Country
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0671026097 ISBN 13: 9780671026097
Verlag: Gallery Books, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

The Real Parenting Experts Speak Out!
For this invaluable book, Tom McMahon mounted a nationwide media campaign and gathered a wealth of tested and proven child raising tips from experienced parents in over three hundred cities across the country. Here are more than one thousand of the best, reflecting every aspect of parenting -- inside tips today's busy parents all too often don't have time to share with their family and friends. Discover fresh, unique, creative ideas that are fun, thrifty, easily accessible and pediatrician-approved for health and safety:
PLAYTIME -- from indoor activities to outdoor play to coping with clutter and cleanup
MEALTIME -- how to feed baby, deal with your finicky eater and dine out without losing your mind
HEALTH AND SAFETY -- taking medicine painlessly, soothing colicky babies, visiting the doctor, and more
DISCIPLINE -- three easy steps that short-circuit big problems before they begin!
BEDTIME -- from putting baby to bed to quieting bumps in the night
ON THE GO -- travel and vacations, errands and shopping made easy
SELF ESTEEM AND RELATIONSHIPS -- promoting healthful self-respect and respect for others
From baby basics to easy toilet training to teaching your children responsibility and more, here are fast, fabulous "fixes" that work!

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

As an educator, Tom McMahon has experience at the elementary, junior high, senior high, and college levels, including twenty years as a professor of counseling and psychology at Ohlone College in Fremont, California. Tom McMahon writes a weekly newspaper parenting column for The Oregonian, is a frequent guest speaker on parenting, and has appeared on numerous radio and television shows including Oprah, Good Morning America, and the CNN and Fox television networks. He resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two children.

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Chapter 1: PLAY TIME
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-- Albert Einstein
In a child's world, a doll comes to life, wooden blocks are transformed into cities, and a pail of water becomes an ocean of fun. These types of activities -- creative play -- seem to be the most enjoyable for children and certainly keep their attention the longest. For example, I sometimes pause at my daughters' bedroom door to sneak a peek into their imaginative world. I recently watched my three-year-old put her "babies" to bed. Catching my eye, she held her index finger to her lips and whispered, "Shhh, babies night-night." My six-year-old, only a few feet away, was building a skyscraper with her blocks and Legos. Concentrating with the intensity of an architect, she paused briefly before placing each new piece on the structure. These creative moments stimulate a child's intellectual development, say the child-care experts. And some adults actually credit these early experiences with influencing their career paths many years later.
After repeatedly seeing my children abandon an expensive new toy for the box it came in, I finally learned that simple props found around the house could inspire the best creative play. The abandoned toy could be only one thing, but that simple brown box became their hideout, a crib for their babies, and a "car" to push each other around in. Many store-bought toys, especially the fad toys hyped by the media, can't hold my daughters' attention the same way creative play can. For example, my six-year-old and her friend recently complained of being bored; they had exhausted their toy supply in a matter of minutes. Looking around for something to occupy their time, I yanked the bedspread off my daughter's bed and draped it over three chairs, creating a tent. They shrieked with anticipation, disappeared under the bedspread, and played heartily for two hours. On another occasion, I lined up four chairs and yelled, "All aboard." As they boarded the "train," both girls were shouting out destinations they wanted to travel to. They took turns being the conductor, whose primary job was to take care of a stubborn passenger, our three-year-old.
Arts and crafts are fun and stimulating for young children, and the possibilities of projects are endless. Books, puzzles, games, and television (although, in my opinion, it needs to be used judiciously) are other favorite activities for most young children. Books provide one of the most important activities a child can engage in, from enjoying the pictures to learning how to read (see Chapter 4). Puzzles are another activity that young children are drawn to, from a simple four-piece puzzle for toddlers to a one-hundred-piece jigsaw for older children. Not only are they fun and challenging, but they help children learn sizes, shapes, and colors. Parlor games are fun and have a tendency to bring the whole family together.
To help bring order to the wonderful world of playtime, I have arranged the following activity tips into ten separate sections: Indoor Activities, Pretend Play, Outdoor Fun, Quitting a Favorite Activity, Arts and Crafts, Recycling "Masterpieces," Toys, Coping with Toy Clutter, Storing Toys, and Quick Cleanup. These innovative activities offer hours of fun and adventure for you and your children.

INDOOR ACTIVITIES
RAINY DAY/SICK DAY BOX: For a rainy-day activity or when a child is sick in bed, bring out a special box of toys and games to which your child does not usually have access. Karin Poe, Fremont, California
PICK AN ACTIVITY: Decorate a shoe box with your child and place in it strips of paper, each suggesting an activity which you and your child can do together. When your child is bored or you want to share some quality time, pull out a piece of paper and have fun. D.L., Tarsa, Michigan
A LIST OF THINGS I CAN DO BY MYSELF: Ask your children to list twenty or more things they can do all by themselves (reading, drawing, etc.). Save this list and present it to them the next time they say, "I don't have anything to do." It reminds them of fun projects they can accomplish all by themselves. Rebecca Robinson, San Jose, California
TREASURE HUNT: Make up three-by-five cards with a drawing of easily recognizable places in the house and/or yard -- such as crib, refrigerator, mailbox, etc. Help the child find the place pictured on the first card, where she will find the picture card leading to the next hidden card and the next, etc.; and on to the last place, where the "treasure" is to be found. Mr. and Mrs. Roland Giduz, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
A GUESS BOX: A small container such as an empty tissue box or round oatmeal container makes a great guess or touch box. Take turns with your children placing a surprise item in the box. The other person has to guess what's inside just by touching it. It's a fun game and great for language development. Janice Fonteno, Union City, California
JUNK MAIL FOR KIDS: Place unopened junk mail in a colorful shoe box, and save it for a "rainy day" or a "rainy hour"! When your child announces that he is bored, hand him his shoe box. He will spend considerable time opening, examining, and playing with junk mail. Junk mail often contains colorful stickers as well as interesting response envelopes which can be filled and licked -- the best part. Almost all junk mail contains forms for filling in your name, address, and telephone number. This is great practice for an older child. Make certain that none of this mail gets posted or you will triple or quadruple your volume of junk mail! Barbara Allen, Palo Alto, California
GARAGE FUN ON A RAINY DAY: During a recent rainy day, I moved the car out of the garage and brought in all my children's large plastic outdoor toys (small slide, seesaw, basketball hoop, etc.). Our garage turned into an outdoor-play area where the children spent the entire afternoon. Elaine Minamide, San Diego, California
"POOL" PARTY DURING THE SNOWY WINTER: We live in a snowy climate where winters can be long. Sometimes, I fill the bathtub, let the girls put their bathing suits on and get out the Popsicles, and let them play in the bathtub. I sit in the bathroom and read the newspaper or a magazine while they are splashing away. Emily Allen Martinez, Park City, Utah
$$ INEXPENSIVE BUILDING BLOCKS: At many lumber yards, cabinet shops, or construction sites, end cuts of wood in various sizes and shapes are available at little or no cost. When properly sanded to avoid cuts and slivers, a box of these pieces of wood will provide creative play materials for children to construct towers, bridges, cities, vehicles, figures, or whatever comes into their minds. Neil McCallum, Santa Cruz, California
$$ MARBLES ROLL THROUGH PIPE STRUCTURES: Children love to play and create with pieces of regular PVC pipe and an assortment of connectors. They enjoy connecting the pieces together to make engineering marvels. My children especially enjoyed making curving tubes to roll their marbles through. The pipe and connectors are inexpensive and available at most hardware stores. Buy one or more long sections of pipe and an assortment of connectors (elbows, T's, etc.). Cut the pipe in various sizes that will store easily in a box. Jim Stuka, Escondido, California
Let only older children play with marbles. They can be choking hazards for younger children
MOVABLE LEGO STRUCTURES: Our children construct their Lego sets on various-sized particle boards. Then, if we need to move the structure or clean under it, all we have to do is lift the particle board. The Lego structure always stays intact, and our children don't fuss about having to rebuild. Lorrie Rubio, Fremont, California
$$ CLOTHESPINS ARE ENTERTAINING: For an...

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Verlag
Gallery Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0671026097
ISBN 13 
9780671026097
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
304
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV
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