I do not get how a book like that could have good reviews at all. This is the trap that made me buy it and so I think I should help others avoid. After owning it for 2 years (those hard 2 first years of my daughters life, while working full time with rare opportunity to find relaxed time to read) I made it to page 57 with great effort.. Now I've decided I should quit trying to read it. A book should not be an effort of this magnitude.
what made it hard?
-not well written and often repetitive and streching a point too much as if to fill a few more pages.
-no practical advice whatsoever; just theory but no practical advice. example, it will tell you understanding your child's personality is important, it will add personalities are shaped by many experiences, but give you no tools or clues as to how, what things are telling for what etc. Nothing you can use.
-oftentimes the book is basically assuming youre doing it wrong and telling you off. ie if a toddler doesn't listen it's because you are really not wanting them to listen, but rather you expect them to obey, adults wouldn't obey in this scenario either if you consider it, toddlers don't listen because they follow your example etc etc. These aren't the exact words used in the book but their thought process goes like that. State the problem-tell the parent they are at fault-leave it to that.
If anyone else hated this book too, but has found something else that is good, practical, and easy to read, kindly recomment to me please!
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