Elevating Child Care, Janet Lansbury
Elevating Child Care, Janet Lansbury
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Elevating Child Care
A Guide to Respectful Parenting

Author: Janet Lansbury

Narrator: Janet Lansbury

Unabridged: 3 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/30/2024

Synopsis

A modern parenting classic—a guide to a new and gentle way of understanding the care and nurture of infants, by the internationally renowned childcare expert, podcaster, and author of No Bad Kids

“An absolute go-to for all parents, therapists, anyone who works with, is, or knows parents of young children.”—Wendy Denham, PhD

A Resources for Infant Educarers (RIE) teacher and student of pioneering child specialist Magda Gerber, Janet Lansbury helps parents look at the world through the eyes of their infants and relate to them as whole people who have natural abilities to learn without being taught. Once we are able to view our children in this light, even the most common daily parenting experiences become stimulating opportunities to learn, discover, and connect with our child. 

A collection of the most-read articles from Janet’s popular and long-running blog, Elevating Child Care focuses on common infant issues, including:

• Nourishing our babies’ healthy eating habits
• Calming your clingy, fearful child
• How to build your child’s focus and attention span
• Developing routines that promote restful sleep

Eschewing the quick-fix tips and tricks of popular parenting culture, Lansbury’s gentle, insightful guidance lays the foundation for a closer, more fulfilling parent-child relationship, and children who grow up to be authentic, confident, successful adults.

About The Author

Janet Lansbury is unique among parenting experts. As a Resources for Infant Educarers (RIE) teacher and student of pioneering child specialist Magda Gerber, her advice is not based solely on formal studies and the research of others, but also on her twenty years of hands-on experience guiding hundreds of parents and their toddlers. The host of the #1 parenting podcast, Unruffled, and the author of two classic childcare books, No Bad Kids and Elevating Child Care, she lives with her husband and three children in Los Angeles, California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer on December 22, 2014

Like most parenting books, this one has a pamphlet's worth of advice sprinkled into a novel's worth of dogmatic repetition, condescending anecdotes, and quotes from other parenting experts. It's long on theory and short on examples of how to apply the principles in real life. Lansbury comes across l......more

Goodreads review by Erin on January 20, 2021

I am very torn about this book. On one hand, I do think the book has some very solid advice. I have tried to stop saying "it's ok" when my child is crying. I don't know if that actually does anything, but it kind of makes sense not to undermine their feelings. I have also started trying to be less a......more

Goodreads review by Barrie on May 12, 2015

Coming off the high of How to talk to your kids so they listen and listen so your kids will talk, this was quite the disappointment. While I LOVE the RIE way and do my best to impart this way to my kid--her style of writing is too abrupt and quite frankly, a bit boring. I find the same issue with he......more

Goodreads review by Mélanie on August 24, 2016

I struggled with rating this book. Though it is very helpful, and I'm thankful I fell upon this book, the ideas discussed here are not her own. That being said, the ideas discussed resonated with my husband and I. We've applied some of the concepts and it's made parenting a lot simpler & more fun. I......more

Goodreads review by Katy on November 10, 2015

I really struggled with how to rate this. I really love some of her ideas but some are laughably ridiculous. It also just reads as opinion, with little reference to real research to back up her points. For the good, it seems as if it was taken wholesale from other books (Magda Gerber, "How To Talk S......more

Quotes

“An absolute go-to for all parents, therapists, anyone who works with, is, or knows parents of young children . . . This book distills Janet Lansbury’s wisdom into words. I can’t wait to share it with all the parents I know!”—Wendy Denham, PhD

“Janet Lansbury’s writing is an exceptional combination of knowledge, firsthand experience, and lots of heart. Her caring dedication to helping parents and educators is outstanding. Our precious children are going to benefit greatly from her extremely compassionate and easily understood delivery of valuable information and insights.”—Deborah McNelis, Brain Insights

“This book is inspiring and will give you the tools and information you need to transform your relationship with your baby and find your own passion for parenting.”—Lisa Sunbury Gerber

“Take Magda Gerber’s Educaring Approach, add passion and 20 years of experience with babies and parents, mix with insight, humor, and a way with words, and you get this little gem of a book.”— Ruth Mason, Resources for Infant Educarers

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