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Choosing
Child Care 
Author
Ruth Powell has written this
book for all parents who
already happily have their
children in child care or are thinking about using a centre or
programme.
It
is so important to be part of your
child day even when they attend part or full time care. It is
about staying connected even whilst they are not with you.
Choosing Child
Care is an enjoyable, easy read
as it
draws on many real life experiences and aims to leave the
reader
feeling more in touch with their child’s day. It's the ultimate
guide - find out everything you need to know about finding and using a
child
care
centre in Australia.
Read more about the book here.
Parent's Embrace Behavioural Guidance
Parents
Embrace refers to ‘Embracing Parenting’. Ruth is
passionate about holistic parenting and behavioural guidance. Holistic parenting for Ruth refers to
consciously parenting through recognising Children’s natural
spirituality and
the positive impact that the environment, limits, routines, parent
child
interactions and role modeling can have on children.
Parents
embrace is an affordable telephone and email
consulting service that covers a wide range of everyday worries and
ongoing
behaviour problems that parents are often faced with. Ruth offers
parents clear effective strategies on how to handle challenging
behaviour.
Parents can often find that a behaviour just continues, one stategy may
of worked for a while but then the behaviour escalates or it never
really stops and the child is just constantly being reprimanded.
Ruth will help you move on from that behaviour - this is a relief for
not only parents but the child as well.
Ruth on
Mumzone 
Ruth
has just joined Mumzone as their resident child behavioural and child
care expert. See Parent's questions and Ruth's responses here.
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About Ruth 
I recently moved
permanently back to Perth after
many years moving around
Australia (and the US) with my husband's work. I have
a son and
daughter aged
eight and five and Australia's best travelled 13 year old red heeler,
who is as
happy as us to now be staying put!
I have worked and studied over
twenty
years in the early child hood field and
feel more passionate than ever about the care of young children with a
particular interest in behavioural guidance and choosing the right
Child Care
for children.
My formal qualifications and
previous work
experience includes:
Director
of both small and large Child Care
Centres throughout Australia
Reviewer
(validator) of Child Care Standards for
the National Child Care Accreditation Council
Policy writing
and consultation for both
government and private organizations
Lifeline
telephone counsellor
Bachelor of
Social Science (Children and Family Studies)
- Edith Cowan University, Perth
Diploma
in Social Science (Child Care)
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and Parent's
Embrace