Granny-Nanny: A Guide for Grandparents Who Provide Full, Part-Time, or Temporary Daycare for Their Grandchildren by Lee Edwards Benning

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  • Pub. Date: April 2005
  • 196pp

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    • Pub. Date: April 2005
    • Publisher: Cleveland Clinic Press
    • Format: Paperback, 196pp

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    With wisdom garnered from the perspectives of children, parents, and grandparents, this guide to managing child care offers insightful solutions to what can be a delicate situation. From the perspective of grandparents, issues such as where to care, what to charge, and the importance of a written contract are addressed, along with information on how to communicate effectively with parents, what to do in an emergency, and how to cope with unruly in-laws. Parents receive information on what to pay for their parents' services, how to care for an unusual child, how to construct the ideal parent-grandparent relationship, and how to gauge the reactions of their children toward their new nanny. This is an indispensable guide for parents looking for inexpensive, qualified, and loving childcare and for grandparents looking to make a buck while visiting their grandchildren.

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    Granny-Nanny: A Guide for Grandparents Who Provide Full, Part-Time, or Temporary Daycare for Their Gby Anonymous

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    August 06, 2006: The Granny-Nanny: A Guide For Parents & Grandparents Who Share Child Care by Lee Edwards Benning (himself a real life granny-nanny) is a wonderfully informative, thoroughly 'user friendly', 223-page manual specifically written for parents and grandparents who share child care responsibilities. This is a parenting phenomena which has become more common in the past 15 years, according to documentation by the Cleveland Clinic Press, as at least 79% of today's grandparents will engage in the tribulations and satisfaction of daily child care due to the children's parents having to both work outside of the home. Individual chapters deal with a variety of germane issues such as child safety, communication, controversy (including discipline), abuse, the generation gap, whose home is to be used, and even a quiz which is both humorous and descriptive. There is an especially valuable chapter offering suggestions about dealing with common issues and problems called 'Making the Best of It' which covers divorce, special needs, and ending the relationship (which really is about deciding when child care needs to be provided by someone other than the granny), for a vast variety of reasons. Grandparents' rights are discussed, as are financial arrangements and pertinent legal questions. Finally, a series of very helpful appendices provide resource suggestions including activities, age-appropriate books and toys, child care accreditation services, and a granny-nanny refresher course. Filly a genuine and pressing need, The Granny-Nanny is a very highly recommended and practical guide for parents and grandparents who are about to embark upon a great co-parenting adventure together.