The Four-Thirds Solution: Solving the Child-Care Crisis in America Today

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America's leading child psychiatrist reveals how parents can give young children the very best start while maintaining their working lives. Internationally recognized for his brilliant insights into the emotional and intellectual development of infants and young children, Dr. Stanley Greenspan now shows how this can best be encouraged within the real lives of parents today. Recognizing that day care, for the most part, does not provide the intense one-to-one nurturing that children need in the first few years, he offers a radical redefinition of family life. Without suggesting that either parent give up a career, he presents a wide variety of practical solutions, including the "four-thirds solution" (in which both parents work 2/3 time), that make children the top priority and the equal responsibility of both parents.

Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at George Washington University Medical School, is the autho r of many influential works including The Secure C hild, The Growth of the Mind, The Child with Speci al Needs (with Serena Wieder, Ph.D.), and The Chal lenging Child, and co-author, with T. Berry Brazel ton, M.D., of The Irreducible Needs of Children. Jacqueline Salmon, a staff writer on th e Washington Post, is the mother of two young chil dren and has lived the very issues outlined in thi s book.