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Title: Becoming the Parent You Want To Be: A Sourcebook of Strategies for the First Five Years by Laura Davis, Janis Keyser ISBN: 0-553-06750-8 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (14 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Great for toddlers and preschoolers, a bit off for babies
Comment: As everyone so far has written, this is a wonderful, empathetic book. It includes a wealth of information, in a depth rarely found in popular parenting books. As a single mom, I appreciated that the authors do not assume that everyone has the "ideal" two-parent middle class WASP family. However, although the book's subtitle says that it is for the first five years, I find some of its advice on infant care questionable. They think it is okay to let your baby cry to learn independence, if it agrees with the parents' values. They also wrongly claim that "...some children never lose interest in nursing..." and advocate adult-led weaning. Buy this book for helpful information about your toddler and preschooler, but for babies, see the books by Martha and William Sears (The Baby Book, Parenting the Fussy Baby and High Need Child, The Discipline Book) for a more sensitive approach.
Rating: 5
Summary: A book that respects both parents and children
Comment: What a relief to stumble across this book as my son turns twenty months! The authors provide detailed discussions of how to construct a parenting philosphy that "honors the impulse" behind children's behavior in a variety of situations: play, toileting, sleeping (or not), physical activity, child care, conflict and friendship. It handles less frequently handled topics as well, such as young children's sex play, racism, and homophobia. The book is a strong advocate for parents. Having a family with children, they stress, is not a project of controlling children but rather of balancing interests between all family members. Unlike many parenting books, this work lets the parent reflect on what his or her own family's boundaries should be while offering information about children's possible perspectives in specific situations and ideas for respecting these perspectives. I also appreciated the invitation to think about one's own upbring in order to create a set of practices to model for our own children. Single parents, gay parents, and parents of non-Christian faith are all actively included in the examples, which are helpfully and skillfully drawn from one of the author's parenting groups. In a welcome departure from many parenting books, fathers and men are also considered to be equally capable of and interested in raising their children. I have enjoyed incorporating the author's ideas into my daily interactions with my son and husband. I suspect that many other parents who don't fit into the "What to expect..." advice series would as well. Several friends will be getting this as a gift for the holidays!!!
Rating: 4
Summary: A Welcome Resource
Comment: As a gay man planning on becoming a parent in the near future - via adoption - I've been hungry for resources and books about parenting. Of course, the majority of the books are written from the viewpoint of heterosexual parents, and more often than not married heterosexual parents (and sometimes also Christian), and make many assumptions about the sexual orientation of the parent AND the kind of family the reader is part of. This book was a welcome change in that it recognized the diversity of families, addressing the differences and commonalities between different families.
It may not seem like a big deal to some, but to people who are rarely acknowledged in any medium, who often have to weed out what is applicable to them, and read between the lines for useful information while their own specific situation is ignored or their kind of community or family is disregarded, it's a big deal. It sends the message "You, too, are a family," in a society where recent and on-going attempts to narrow the definition of just what is a family threatens to leave those who do not fit into the traditional mold rudderless and without shelter as we try to navigate through this society which we must all inevitably share. It's just nice to receive the message "You are a family too, and your family is important too."
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Title: Your Self-Confident Baby: How to Encourage Your Child's Natural Abilities from the Very Start by Magda Gerber, Allison Johnson ISBN: 0471178837 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: 01 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: EMOTIONAL LIFE OF THE TODDLER by Alicia F. Lieberman ISBN: 0028740173 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Trees Make the Best Mobiles: Simple Ways to Raise Your Child in a Complex World by Jessica Teich, Brandel France de Bravo ISBN: 0312303254 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish ISBN: 0380811960 Publisher: Perennial Currents Pub. Date: 05 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Your Two-Year-Old : Terrible or Tender by LOUISE BATES AMES ISBN: 0440506387 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 15 July, 1980 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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