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Excerpts from Dear Parent

 

Dear Parent:

Caring for Infants with Respect
eXPANDED  eDITION  
by Magda Gerber
Edited by Joan Weaver
Published by Resources for Infant Educarers (RIE)

Infant specialist Magda Gerber shares her vision, wisdom and practical guidance about infants. Respecting infants is the unusual but sound basis that allows both parents and caregivers to establish a secure relationship starting from the earliest age when the baby is in a preverbal stage. This book explains how to "educare", to educate as you care, and how this differs from other approaches. Useful not only for parents, this approach is indispensable to those working in childcare centers as it shows how to give individual care and attention to each infant in a group setting.

Topics covered include:
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What do infants need? And what do parents need?

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How parents can provide an environment in which both they and their infants thrive.

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The motor skills and coping skills your baby can learn best from his own inner resources.

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The social, emotional and language skills a baby can learn best through having his natural innate capabilities fostered.

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The importance of talking and listening to a baby.

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How Magda's respectful 'Educaring' differs from other methods.

 

The new second edition contains two new chapters that offer further information on applying the RIE philosophy of respectful attention to infants in family child care and in center based care.

Excerpts from Dear Parent

 
 

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