Publisher's Synopsis
Up-dated and expanded, this book offers advice to parents and helpers on the different aspects of running playgroups, taking into account the changing role women and children play in a multicultural society, and the importance of pre-school education in relation to working parents. It covers setting up a playgroup or a parent and toddler group, running a successful playgroup session and understanding child development.;It should be particularly useful to all those who work with under-fives - childminders, nursery/infant teachers, nurses and nursery nurses, as well as those involved with training others for the profession.;Ann Henderson is the editor of "Contact", the house magazine for the Pre-School Playgroup Association and Joyce Lucas has lectured in early childhood education, having previously been in charge of a nursery school.
