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Caring for Infants and toddlers today. That’s our mission; it’s what we all do, wherever we find ourselves, whether we’re directors or parents, teachers or grandparents, librarians or care providers of any kind. We feed them and diaper them, keep them warm, and make sure the roof over their heads is safe. But more �" we sing with them, cuddle with them, and read to them, so they know that they are people who are loved.When our granddaughter Caroline was a baby, we played “Piggies” at bedtime with her little toes. It was different every day and was our way of making what she did each day important: This little piggy might have gone for a walk, or had ice cream, or played with the little girl down the street �" and always returned, Wee Wee Wee, to Caroline’s house. It was the comforting, good-night ritual that closed out her days.
Babies love to sing. In Rock-a-Bye Room, a child and her guitar-playing Mama sing a good-night song to all the things in her bedroom that keep her company during the day: the rocking horse, the Raggedy Ann, the toy tractor. It’s a softly illustrated, country western variation on Goodnight Moon. ...