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Have you ever wondered what really goes on at your childs day-care center after you say good-bye? Harriet Brown did. To satisfy her curiosity, she spent an entire year observing Red Caboose, a center in Madison, Wisconsin. This engaging and thought-provoking book is the story of that year. In her beautifully written personal account, journalist and mother Brown takes us behind the scenes at a day-care center that works. At Red Caboose, one of the oldest independent centers in the country, we meet teachers who have worked with young children for more than twenty years. We watch the child-care union and parents struggle to negotiate a contract without ripping apart the fabric of trust and love that holds the Red Caboose community together. We look at the centers finances, to see what keeps Red Caboose going at a time when other good centers are disappearing. Best of all, we get to know the children, families, and teachers of Red Caboosetheir struggles, their sorrows, their triumphs. Started twenty-five years ago by a group of idealistic parents, the center has not only survived but thrived through some pretty tough times. In the world of day care, Red Caboose is a special place, a model for what child care in this country could and should be: not just babysitting, not just a service to working parents, but a benefit for children, families, teachers, and the community at large. Brown sets her rich and engaging stories in the greater political and social context of our time. Why is so much child care bad? Why should working Americans worry about the link between welfare reform and child care? What can we learn from the history of child care? This book is a must-read for parents, educators, and anyone who enjoys first-rate writing and dead-on insight into the lives of our youngest children and those who care for them. [Browns] writing is beautiful and her scholarship sound. Students considering day-care careers, day-care professionals, and concerned parents will gain insight by reading this provocative book, as will anyone who cares about the future of young children in this country.Choice I admire enormously the ambition of this bookits eagle-eyed witness and engrossing detail, plus the social importance of the project. I wish there were in the world more books like it.Lorrie Moore, author of Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? The Good-bye Window is a fascinating peek into the secret world of children. With the poignancy of Anne LaMott, and the reportorial grace of Tracy Kidder, Harriet Brown has written a terrific and worthwhile book.Meg Wolitzer, author of This Is Your Life Harriet Browns well-told story of the Red Caboose child-care center should be read by teachers and parents, but also by every legislator and politician in the land. Only a writer as good as Ms. Brown could display the dramatic complexities of a school community in which the youngest members enter crawling and emerge a few years later as articulate, empathetic, and well-socialized individuals, ready for the real world.Vivian Gussin Paley, author of The Boy Who Would Be a Helicopter

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title:The Good-bye Window : A Year in the Life of a Day-care Center
author:Brown, Harriet.
publisher:University of Wisconsin Press
isbn10 | asin:0299158705
print isbn13:9780299158705
ebook isbn13:9780585071855
language:English
subjectRed Caboose Day Care Center (Madison, Wis.) , Day care centers--United States--Case studies.
publication date:1998
lcc:HQ778.67.M33B76 1998eb
ddc:362.71/2/09775
subject:Red Caboose Day Care Center (Madison, Wis.) , Day care centers--United States--Case studies.
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The Good-bye Window
A Year in the Life of a Day-Care Center
Harriet N. Brown
THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS
Page iv
The University of Wisconsin Press
2537 Daniels Street
Madison, Wisconsin 53718
3 Henrietta Street
London WC2E 8LU, England
Copyright 1998
The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
All rights reserved
All photographs by James H. Young
"The Red Wheelbarrow," by William Carlos Williams,
from Collected Poems, 19091939, Volume I.
Copyright 1938 by New Directions Publishing Corp.
Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
1 3 5 4 2
Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Brown, Harriet N.
The good-bye window: a year in the life of a day-care center /
Harriet N. Brown
264 pp. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-299-15870-5 (cloth: alk. paper).
1. Red Caboose Day Care Center (Madison, Wis.) 2. Day care
centersUnited StatesCase studies. I. Title.
HQ778.67.M33B76 1998
362.71'2'09775dc21 98-17528
Page v
For Jamie, Anna, and Soleil
my family and friends
Page vii
Contents
Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Author's Note
xii
Prologue
3
Chapter 1. Fall: The Bumblebee Room
8
Chapter 2. Winter: The Turtle Room
78
Chapter 3. Spring: The Elephant Room
141
Chapter 4. Summer: The Grasshopper Room
190
Epilogue
241
Notes
249

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Illustrations
Soleil on the red bench,
6
The Moonshine Room,
12
Wendy on the phone,
18
The Sunshine Room,
22
Kenny in a happy moment,
33
Confidantes: Clark and Cory,
35
Clark and Isaac on the playground,
42
Wendy and Lexie in the Sunshine Room,
60
Ernie and the Turtles return from a walk,
82
Stephen makes a basket,
94
Breakfast with the Turtles,
104
On the playground,
121
A watchful Anna C.,
134
Gary and the Elephants play ring-around-a-rosy,
149
Let's make a volcano,
166
Heaven's angels,
171
Project time,
180
Story time,
188
Emily reading to Jacob, Lateef, and Lydia,
192
A view from the Busy Room,
196
Skye in the Grasshopper Room loft,
202
Look Ma, no feet,
204
Lateef, Cory, and Anna,
210
Ride 'em, cowgirls,
216
Janet and Cory,
222
Guardian angel,
224
"One named Quiet and one named Loud,"
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