Books : Becoming the Parent You Want To Be: A Sourcebook of Strategies for the First Five Years
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by: Laura Davis
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 649.1
EAN: 9780553067507
ISBN: 0553067508
Label: Broadway
Manufacturer: Broadway
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: February 03, 1997
Publisher: Broadway
Release Date: February 03, 1997
Sales Rank: 20803
Studio: Broadway
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Product Description:
Informative, inspiring, and enlightening, Becoming the Parent You Want to Be provides parents with the building blocks they need to discover their own parenting philosophy and develop effective parenting strategies. Through in-depth information, practical suggestions, and many lively first-person stories, the authors address the many dilemmas and joys that the parent of young children encounter and demonstrate a range of solutions to the major issues that arise in the raising of babies, toddlers and preschoolers. Full of warmth, clarity, humor, and respect, Becoming the Parent You Want to Be gives parents permission to be human: to question, to learn, to make mistakes, to struggle and to grow, and, most of all, to have fun with their children.
Amazon.com Review:
This may be the best parenting book to come around in years. Laura Davis and Janis Keyser take a straightforward, real, and respectful approach to parenting and children. The book gives solid information on sound child development as well as specific tips that run the gamut from getting your child to sleep to dealing with fear of Halloween to toileting (toilet training) as a metaphor for learning to disciplinary issues. Based on nine principals that deal with issues of time, optimism, struggle, anger, balancing needs, and learning as you go, this book will help you discover and work with your own parenting philosophy.
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Rating:  - Very useful information
I'm really enjoying this book. The authors give great infomation on developmental stages and ideas for how parents can best help their children. They really make you think about your personal philosophy of raising children. I just hope they come up with one for teenagers by the time my daughters reach that age.
Rating: - interesting read
This book can be refreshing to read, fun, informative and even personal. It makes you think about you and your child rather than giving you advice how to be perfect. It is nice that families of different ethnic origin are pictured - it makes the world more round and gives a clear message. It's readable for specific topics or chapter after chapter, you don't need to know the last few sequences to understand the one that really interests you. Two thumbs up for 'Becoming the parent you want to be'.
Rating:  - Many wonderful parts, but not about babies
I am both a lactation consultant and a mental health counselor with families and children. I love this book, and suggest it all the time - with one very strong caveat. Despite the depth of sensitivity and understanding the authors have for preschoolers and older toddlers, they miss the boat about babies. As other reviewers have said, their views for younger children reflect a lack of understanding of the newest knowledge about the neuroscience of development (even the knowledge we had when the book ... Read More
Rating:  - Mediocre blast from the past
This book would have been ground-breaking...had it been published in 1975. Or maybe 1965. I was astonished to read a book advocating gender-neutral dressing in overalls (why not simply pants, for heaven's sake), and fairy tales and toys depicting boys who sew, cook, and dress dolls, and girls who slay dragons and lead the free world -- it brought back memories of all the corny "Free to be you and me" business popular when I was a child. I found the section on child sex-play and nudity to be odd, to ... Read More
Rating: - Informative, useful book for all parents
This is a wonderful book. It's full of useful information. The authors are open and accepting of a variety of parenting practices and styles. The aim really seems to be about helping parents figure out what strategies make sense for their children, their families, and their values. The book does tend to read like a textbook, and it is very long, but I think it makes a wonderful resource book to refer to when parenting challenges arise.
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