| The Four-Thirds Solution: Solving the Child-Care Crisis in America Today Revised Edition Contributor(s): Greenspan, Stanley I. (Author), Salmon, Jacqueline (Author) |
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ISBN: 0738207675 ISBN-13: 9780738207674 Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books OUR PRICE: $18.99 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2002 Annotation: Internationally recognized for his brilliant insights into the emotional and intellectual development of infants and young children, Dr. Stanley Greenspan now shows how this can best be encouraged within the real lives of parents today. Recognizing that day care, for the most part, does not provide the intense one-to-one nurturing that children need in the first few years, he offers a radical redefinition of family life. Without suggesting that either parent give up a career, he presents a wide variety of practical solutions, including the "four-thirds solution" (in which both parents work 2/3 time), that make children the top priority and the equal responsibility of both parents. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Family & Relationships | Parenting - General |
| Dewey: 362.712 |
| Series: Solving the Childcare Crisis in America |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 5.56" W x 8.5" (0.79 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Long recognized for his brilliant insights into the emotional and intellectual development of infants and young children, Dr. Stanley Greenspan argues that parents, not teachers or caregivers, can most effectively encourage this development. In order for parents to do this, however, society must first face an unrecognized dilemma of major proportions. While Dr. Greenspan's research demonstrates that children in the first few years of life need intense one-to-one nurturing to develop their full cognitive and emotional abilities, over 50 percent of families are relying on out-of-home care that, for the most part, does not provide such nurture. In order to resolve this dilemma, he offers a radical redefinition of family life. Without suggesting that either parent give up a career, he presents a wide variety of practical solutions that make children the top priority-and the equal responsibility-of both parents. He vividly describes tag team care, serial careers, other ways to balance at-home care and daycare, ways to make the new technologies that allow working at home a benefit for both adult and child, and the four-thirds solution, in which both parents work two-thirds of the time.A Merloyd Lawrence Book |