(from the overview) The purpose of these pages are to encourage those of you who regularly spend many, many hours a week giving care to infants, toddlers, and two year olds to appreciate more fully the incredibly important character development work you're doing, and to encourage you to deepen both your understanding of child development and your child caring skills.
The book can be used in various ways. People who aren't big readers can benefit and enjoy by looking up something that concerns them in the index and reading about it (biting, fears), or by browsing through the chapters, hitting the headings and highlights, catching the captions, and warming to the dozens of adorable photos-scanning, skimming, and reading paragraphs or segments that appeal to them. Directors, other on site staff development people, and teacher educators may want to use one chapter per session or class as the centerpiece of a discussion.