Babysitting is one of the most popular part-time jobs for teens, but caring for kids is no easy feat. Offering useful tips on everything from navigating naptime to negotiating pay rates, this funny, no-nonsense guide covers all the basics any babysitting hopeful needs to know and much more. This revised edition includes updated ideas for finding jobs, keeping kids-and yourself-safe, and handling behavioral challenges. Learn what to expect from kids...

"This professional development workbook will help you to gain insight into the amazing capabilities of infants, learn about their development, create a more infant-appropriate routine and program, and provide them with security, comfort, and stability as they explore and learn with confidence. Whether you are a veteran educator, new teacher, college student, or career seeker, you'll learn fascinating facts and be reminded of how important your job...

This easy-to-use guide helps parents with evidence-based advice for dealing with the most common issues facing babies and toddlers, including breastfeeding, baby care, developmental stages, first aid and injuries, sleep, vaccines and more.

When Megan Stack was living in Beijing, she left her prestigious job as a foreign correspondent to have her first child and work from home writing a book. She quickly realized that caring for a baby and keeping up with the housework while her husband went to the office each day was consuming the time she needed to write. This dilemma was resolved in the manner of many upper-class families and large corporations: she availed herself of cheap Chinese...

Celebrate the joys of pregnancy and parenthood. The Baby Book presents fascinating facts along side practical advice on all aspects of being a modern parent--from pregnancy and birth to baby and childcare for the first three years, including a specific chapter on having another baby.

Paris, 2015. A crowd gathers outside the Chauvet home in the affluent suburban community of Maisons-Larue, watching as the family’s American au pair is led away in handcuffs after the sudden death of her young charge. The grieving mother believes the caretaker is to blame, and the neighborhood is thrown into chaos, unsure who is at fault—the enigmatic, young foreigner or the mother herself, who has never seemed an active participant in the lives...

Now in a completely revised third edition Sue Doherty, anthropologist and author of the pioneering, practical book, Kinergetics: Dancing with Your Baby (1994), offers must-have cutting-edge research, advice, and insight. A groundbreaking look into the art and science of song, dance, and melodies-and their profoundly nurturing, therapeutic, and developmental effects for infants and caregivers. It is an unprecedented, eye-opening investigation into...

You got the job-but do you have the language? When English is not your first language, being a nanny or au pair to English-speaking children and families can be quite a challenge. This self-study guide provides English language instruction and practice so you can master skills specific to jobs in childcare. Learn vocabulary and phrases to deal with • communication with parents • discipline and sibling rivalry • homework help • food • health/safety Using...