A Grandmother's Guide to Babysitting: Times-Have-Changed Practical Advice and Space for Important Information

by Ruth Meyer Brown

A Grandmother's Guide to Babysitting brings humor, experience, and practice to what to many new grandparents and family friends is a daunting prospect - taking care of children for more than a day.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931868492
• ISBN13: 9781931868495
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Capital Books (VA)
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Useful advice, illustrative vignettes, and practical tips

A Grandmother's Guide To Extended Babysitting by retired teacher and school administrator Ruth Meyer Brown is a solid, practical, "reader friendly" handbook to the art and craft of looking after young ones -- and was specifically written for the older caregiver of young children. From recipes and menus, to handling emergencies, to babysitting stints that range in length from night to summer months, A Grandmother's Guide To Extended Babysitting is packed from cover to cover with useful advice, illustrative vignettes, and practical tips. If you are charged with the care and supervision of grandchildren, nieces or nephews, then you need to read Ruth Meyer Brown's A Grandmother's Guide To Extended Babysitting!

Grandparent Expert

Ruth speaks from experience, the best experience one could hope for. In her comments she includes many details we would never think to ask such as keys to cars, emergency contact, care of the pets and phone numbers and schedules for garbage and recycling. Her personal stories added humor and lively reading

Don't leave home without it!

As a grandmother who does a lot of babysitting, this book has been a godsend! The organization of lists that leave places for important information is invaluable. Well worth the money.