Elevating Child Care: A Guide To Respectful Parenting

Janet Lansbury’s advice on respectful parenting is quoted and shared by millions of readers worldwide. Inspired by the pioneering parenting philosophy of her friend and mentor, Magda Gerber, Janet’s influential voice encourages parents and child care professionals to perceive babies as unique, capable human beings with natural abilities to learn without being taught; to develop motor and cognitive skills; communicate; face age appropriate struggles; initiate and direct independent play for extended periods; and much more. 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 to connect with our child.

“Elevating Child Care” is a collection of 30 popular and widely read articles from Janet’s website that focus on some of the most common infant/toddler issues: eating, sleeping, diaper changes, communication, separation, focus and attention span, creativity, boundaries, and more. Eschewing the quick-fix ‘tips and tricks’ of popular parenting culture, Janet’s insightful philosophy lays the foundation for a closer, more fulfilling parent/child relationship, and children who grow up to be authentic, confident, successful adults.

• No Bad Kids: Toddler Discipline Without Shame
• Your Self-Confident Baby: How to Encourage Your Child's Natural Abilities -- From the Very Start
• A Theory of Objectivist Parenting
• Montessori from the Start: The Child at Home, from Birth to Age Three
• Baby Knows Best: Raising a Confident and Resourceful Child, the RIE™ Way
• The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
• How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
• The Wonder Weeks: How to stimulate the most important developmental weeks in your baby’s first 20 months and turn these 10 predictable, great, fussy phases into magical leaps forward.
• The Joyful Child: Montessori, Global Wisdom for Birth to Three
• No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind