Publisher's Synopsis
Become an educated consumer with the red book edition. I Want My Mommy A Parent's Guide to Child Care and Education Red Book, is a factual guide updated for parents, teachers, and educational administrators. Written by an insider who understands the system inside and out. Provided are the tools to assist in making the best choices for childcare and education. The red book offers current international data that supports health & wellness, education, and women & children issues. Early adult and infant interactions do not just create a context, they directly affect the way the brain is wired. It is not only about what or how children are taught, but also how children are treated that determines their emotional development needs being met and their outcome in life as they mature into adults. Readers are given information on the great diversity of child day care and higher education in the U.S., and how demographics play a significant role. Reviewed are the two drivers of behavior known as 'intrinsic motivation- natural curiosity' and 'extrinsic motivation- linked to reward'. The evidence on the importance of nurturing intrinsic motivation is solid but negated, in a reward culture that is introduced into the classroom or by the parent(s) at a very early age. Homeschooling allows for customizing the curriculum to the individual child's character. Education styles for home schooling differ greatly from one another and are infinite in possibilities when applied on an individual basis. The chapter titled "Food" explains menus are influenced by the proprietor or director's personal signature, yet all these centers follow the mandatory guidelines listed under the CACFP-USDA federal program. Food represents who we are and who we will become over the course of our lifetime. Chemical and emotional food addictions are multi-generational and endemic in the U.S. Mammals have a natural born ability to parent from the time of birth. Touch is our first sense to develop in the womb, and research has shown the reason humans need physical contact is because of our evolutionary background as primates. I Want My Mommy A Parent's Guide to Child Care and Education Red Book, decodes and deconstructs education for the reader. Explained are the diverse methods, contents, and behaviors in educational formats. The book becomes a guide for parents, educators, and administrators. Whistle blowers, human right advocates, investigative journalists, and documentarians are considered as educators in the red book. Listed in the bibliography are current archives that support the quest that begins and continues throughout the book to find the answer as to 'why'? This leads into the education and behavior of adults whose professional roles are to teach, uphold laws and serve the community. We as a society and globally come together collectively to participate in a learning experience and to co-create an inherent need to consciously be aware. In the U. S. and other global cultures is a definition that requires women to suppress or devalue their own female nature. To recognize her full self in relation to the archetypal feminine is a transition of enormous proportions. The woman is returning to an affirmation of the primordial feminine. She is the banished and the one expelled from a culture that she was born and raised into. Unless that link is consciously retrieved women wander half alive. All feminine elements are innately supported by nature and earthly instincts. This represents an extreme opposite to a polarized masculine consciousness ideology and cultural environment. The book received favorable reviews from two American investigative journalists who support women's health issues and covered national politics.
