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In this ground-breaking book, Ellen Ruppel Shell takes us deep inside a world that few adults ever penetrate, but where millions of young children spend the bulk of their waking hours. A Child's Place: A Year in the Life of a Day Care Center is an in-depth look at day care as it really is: a confusing, wonderful, terrifying, messy social experiment. This is an honest, sometimes shocking, consistently fascinating portrayal of day care from the inside, one that both touches the heart and captures the real-life concerns of working parents everywhere. A Child's Place finds its base at Cambridgeport Children's Center, a multicultural day care center housed in a converted eighteen-car garage in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The
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Overview

In this ground-breaking book, Ellen Ruppel Shell takes us deep inside a world that few adults ever penetrate, but where millions of young children spend the bulk of their waking hours. A Child's Place: A Year in the Life of a Day Care Center is an in-depth look at day care as it really is: a confusing, wonderful, terrifying, messy social experiment. This is an honest, sometimes shocking, consistently fascinating portrayal of day care from the inside, one that both touches the heart and captures the real-life concerns of working parents everywhere. A Child's Place finds its base at Cambridgeport Children's Center, a multicultural day care center housed in a converted eighteen-car garage in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The story focuses on the lives of Molly, a teacher with a grown son of her own, and three other families: a newly divorced mother and her son; a professional couple and their daughters; and a Haitian couple and their American-born sons. What these seemingly unlike parents share with each other and with all working parents is an overwhelming drive to do the best for their children despite daunting obstacles. While their stories are very personal, their struggles are universal, and every parent will see at least a partial reflection of his or her own conflicts mirrored in these lives. A Child's Place is a moving, inspiring narrative that adds a unique viewpoint to the ongoing public debate over one of the most critical social issues of our time.

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Publishers Weekly
``Tot Lot,'' aka Cambridgeport Children's Center in Cambridge, Mass., is a community-based day care center with an unusual and colorful history. Founded in the early 1970s by a group of progressive parents, Tot Lot has faced seemingly insurmountable problems over the years, but through the dedicated efforts of its staff and volunteers has survived and today serves children from a variety of cultural, racial and socioeconomic backgrounds. Shell, associate professor of journalism at Boston University's graduate school, focuses on the head teacher (a woman who did not graduate from college but has a great love of children), a Haitian family struggling with American values, an educated, liberal family and a single mother trying to do right by her son. Peppered throughout the book are shorter anecdotes about other teachers, children and parents. Shell weaves these stories--comic, thought-provoking or tragic--to create a heartwarming, inspiring tapestry. (June)
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Shell (journalism, Boston Univ.) here profiles the Cambridgeport Children's Center, a multicultural, community-based day care center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her focus is an experienced teacher named Molly and three representative families: a middle-class family with two daughters, a Haitian immigrant couple with American-born children, and a single mother and her son. The result is a highly readable, deeply informative account of the status of day care in the United States. She assesses the problems, dynamics, emotions, and politics of child care as they are played out on the local, state, and national policy making levels. Around the framework of daily life at the center, the author weaves moving details about family and teacher concerns along with considerable information on the many complex day care issues. Thoroughly researched and gracefully written, this is an important book.-- Hilma F. Cooper, Cheltenham Township Libs., Pa.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780316783767
  • Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
  • Publication date: 5/12/1992
  • Edition description: 1st ed
  • Pages: 272
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