Child Development, Health, and Safety: Educational Materials for Home Visitors and Parents

by Lisa R. Cohen

A set of materials for use by home visitors such as public-health nurses, early-childhood educators, and maternal outreach workers who seek to reduce injuries to children from abuse, neglect, or accidents. Materials to share with parents are included. After explanations of the need, principles, and the tools, standards of development at various age levels, and warning behavior or conditions are identified. The safety section discusses such topics as hot tap water, space heaters, baby walkers, buckets and toilets, electricity, firearms, bicycles and tricycles, seat belts, and the bathtub. Other sections cover parenting issues such as paternity, child care, family planning, and stress; and ideas to make visits interesting and informative. Spiral wire binding. The CiP data shows the subtitle beginning with Assessment materials..... Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

277 pages, Spiral-bound

First published January 15, 1996