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Overview
Cynthia MacGregor has won the hearts of thousands of parents with her parenting classics. In The Naptime Book, she shares sweet, simple, and effective suggestions to help children get their all-important sleep during the day. Current medical thinking indicates that small children should get at least nine hours of sleep at night and a nap during the day. Alarming statistics show that sleep deprivation can lead to countless health, cognition, and social problems. Cynthia MacGregor can help transform naptime into a treat both children and their caregivers look forward to every afternoon, leading to happier, healthier children and more joyful families.
The Naptime Book is full of creative, playful ways to help children relax. Plus the hundreds of story-time activities, quiet games, riddles, and rhymes in this little book will help develop language and number skills. And what book on naps would be complete without a chapter called "Time Out for Mom, Too!" Adults who care for small children all day need to take time for themselves. MacGregor suggests ways to use this time to your own best advantage.
A sweet little book, with illustrations throughout, The Naptime Book is perfect for busy parents, tired teachers, and perplexed day-care professionals.
The Naptime Book offers creative solutions to the challenge of naptime as well as a unique opportunity to foster closer relationships with young children. It's a book bound to become dog-eared with repeated use.
Editorials
Children's Literature
This compendium of pre-naptime rituals is designed to help parents and caregivers expand their repertoire from the "story and a song" routine. A follow-up to MacGregor's earlier Night-Night, this volume aspires to overcome kids' resistance to naptime and to reinforce the importance of good napping for preschool-aged children. Because of its focus on younger children's naptime needs, The Naptime Book relies on simpler stories and games than MacGregor's earlier book. It also offers games and activities that promote fundamental concepts such as color, numbers, and senses. The poems and silly songs included here are probably the least useful section of the book—why not use familiar Mother Goose rhymes rather than these new, hard-to-remember verses? Storytelling exercises that focus on the family (telling stories about the parent's childhood, for example, or well-known stories from the family history) can foster communication and closeness, even if sleep is not the ultimate goal. Many of the guessing games and quiet activities could also be used with great success on long car trips and on rainy afternoons. 2003, Conari Press, Ages Adult.—Norah Piehl