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Title: The Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age Two (Revised and Updated Edition) by James Sears, Martha Sears, Robert Sears, William Sears ISBN: 0-316-77800-1 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: March, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.18 (472 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Dr. Sears Empowers Parents Not Preaches to Them
Comment: Why are people so angry at this book??? Dr. Sears says over and over again to parent with what works best for you and your family. His whole philosphy is that mothers and fathers know what is best for their child.
I think he offers a greater range (more than you'ld find in most "mainstream" books) of possibilities that parents can try with their child. Many of his options (e.g. co-sleeping, wearing your baby) have been used successfully for centuries before in our own and other countries.
The options are compassionate, empathetic and feel natural once you rid yourself of many of our societal hangups. It is a back to basics book that doesn't require the parents to go out and buy tonnes of baby furniture, equipment and toys to raise a successful child.
My child is now 8 months old and we have used many of the ideas in the book. I get many compliments from people I know and don't of how "good" (I like to think "well-adjusted") my baby is. What they don't know is that my husband and I work really really hard everyday putting into practice ideas that work for us from the book.
We find many of the child-rearing options to be empowering to us and our child. I'm so glad we bought this book. I don't think me or my child would have the relationship we do now without this book giving me the courage to take back my power to mother with what works best for us.
If you want to wake up 3 or 4 times a night to a crying baby in another room, and then need to go all the way into your kitchen to heat a bottle, then trudge down the hall back to your screaming baby this book isn't for you. If you're looking for a better way than this, READ THIS BOOK.
Rating: 3
Summary: Good info, guilt-trips, all mixed together
Comment: Some info in this book is really great, but lurking in sidebars and stories are some really serious guilt trips that I'm sure will inspire many a women's study major of the future. For instance, the authors say several times that any sleep arrangement that works for you is OK, but then refer to the "bars" of the crib as if they're prison bars. There's the same sort of mixed messages about moms working outside the home and bottlefeeding. Read this one with the same skepticism you'd give any book that makes a lot of value judgements.
Rating: 5
Summary: Touchy-Feely And That's The Point
Comment: OK, like most baby books it's a little didactic--as if there's some special wisdom the rest of us are missing--but on the whole a lovely book that promotes good, sound ideas for responsible, hands-on parenting, with great respect for the boundaries. Not for Penelope Leach people or Moms who feel their children can do no wrong. I just finished the funniest and most incredibly fresh book on parenting, "I Sleep At Red Lights: A True Story of Life After Triplets," by Bruce Stockler, an incredibly warm, wise and literary journey into fatherhood.
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Title: The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night by Elizabeth Pantley, William Sears ISBN: 0071381392 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 28 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Breastfeeding Book : Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Your Child from Birth Through Weaning by Martha Sears, William Sears ISBN: 0316779245 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 02 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Discipline Book: How to Have a Better-Behaved Child From Birth to Age Ten by Martha, William Sears ISBN: 0316779032 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 15 February, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: What to Expect the First Year, Second Edition by Heidi Murkoff, Sandee Hathaway, Arlene Eisnberg ISBN: 0761129588 Publisher: Workman Publishing Company Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5 by American Academy Of Pediatrics ISBN: 0553379623 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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