Berenstain Bears Get the Gimmies

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Summary: Just OK
Review: Cute but not as good as other Bearenstain Bear books. It doesn't really teach about controlling the gimmies. Instead of teaching kids that it's simply not acceptable to get a treat every single time they go somewhere, the solution is to let them get just one treat each time. Not very practicle in my opinon. Also, like another reviewer stated, it would have been nice if at the end Brother and Sister bear hadn't been so condesending to another little cub with the gimmies. Still, it's not a completely bad book to add to your little cubs book collection!

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Summary: Get The Gimmies
Review: Does your child want everything in sight and cries and throws a fit if he or she doesn't get what they want? If so, this is the book for you to read to your child. It also teaches you, the adult, a way to take care of the "galloping gimmies."
It all starts when Sister bear and Brother bear go to the store with their parents. Sister and Brother want everything in sight and throw fits. This is so embarrassing to mama and papa bear so they kept buying things when their cubs throw fits. Big mistake! Now Brother and Sister were spoiled brats and Mama and Papa had to think of a way to solve this problem. That's when Granny and Gramps come over and tell a story about Papa bear when he was younger. Turns out he had the Gimmes too and they had figured out a way to solve it.
I think this story is great for youngsters and adults. It teaches children how to compromise with their parents and teaches the parents ways to stop their children from wanting everything and throwing fits. It also is full of fun just like all books by Stan and Jan Berenstain. Also if your looking for other books like this one, that teaches valuable lessons, you might want to check out some of the other books by these two marvelous writers.

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Summary: doesn't live up to Berenstain Bear standards but good
Review: I preface this by saying that my children (5 and 3) love the Berenstain Bears, and this title is no exception. The overall message is good: people who want everything will never be satisfied. The main underlying message is good too: parents get *awfully* annoyed at being nagged for goodies. The plan the parents implement with the help of the grandbears, and the enthusiasm of the cubs works well for them. A similar version works well for my family too.

My only objection is the "superiority" the cubs seem to feel and don't hesitate to express about other "greedy cubs" after they have learned some control over their own greed. They parrot the parents when they see a cub throwing a tantrum and discuss how "embarrassing and awful" that behaviour is. Too bad. I'd rather see the cubs feel empathy for another, to understand how very similar they are to the others, even if they are currently displaying exemplary behaviour.

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Summary: Good message, mostly, but with some flaws
Review: I preface this by saying that my children (5 and 3) love the Berenstain Bears, and this title is no exception. The overall message is good: people who want everything will never be satisfied. The main underlying message is good too: parents get *awfully* annoyed at being nagged for goodies. The plan the parents implement with the help of the grandbears, and the enthusiasm of the cubs works well for them. A similar version works well for my family too.

My only objection is the "superiority" the cubs seem to feel and don't hesitate to express about other "greedy cubs" after they have learned some control over their own greed. They parrot the parents when they see a cub throwing a tantrum and discuss how "embarrassing and awful" that behaviour is. Too bad. I'd rather see the cubs feel empathy for another, to understand how very similar they are to the others, even if they are currently displaying exemplary behaviour.

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Summary: Stops those meltdowns cold!
Review: I would like to express my gratitude to the Berenstains for giving me the perfect antidote to my children's rampant greediness in stores. When my oldest daughter was three she began to be very demanding in stores. If I gave in I felt like a wimp and if I didn't she would disolve into tears (or worse). One day I picked up this book and it taught us both some valuable lessons. I learned to let her know beforehand if she can pick out a little something, and she learned just how unattractive tantrums look to outsiders and why it is wrong to demand everything in sight. Now if she starts to get whiney in a store I just tell her in a nice way to watch out--she's getting the gimmies, and she knows exactly what I mean. It sounds a lot kinder, too, than, "You're a greedy brat." I look forward to reading it to her younger sister who is just about to enter that stage!

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Summary: Listen & read how the Bernstin Bears get the gimmies
Review: Listen & read to the experiance of the gimmies and a way to solve them! :-)

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Summary: doesn't live up to Berenstain Bear standards but good
Review: The book of Berenstain Bears get the gimmies is about the two berenstain children want everything that there is. The parents of the children are fed up with it and tell the children to go upstairs in thier room when gramdma and gramdpa come. When the grandparents ask why the children have been put upstairs then the parents tell them that the children have a bad case of the gimmies. The grandparents tell the dad that he did too and that they limited what they buy to one a day or else they get nothing and that is what the parents did to stop the kids from getting the kids from getting everything. A good story to tell your kids, I recommend it.

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Summary: disappointing resolution
Review: The underlying message is one parents and kids can relate to: being tempted by all the goodies at the store. However, the way the authors dealt with this issue is disappointing. Their solution is to have the parents buy something for each child at every trip to the grocery store. Bribery, essentially.

When I read this book to my daughter, we talk afterwards about why this is a really bad solution to their problem: it teaches the cubs that they should get something every time they go to the store, it DOESN'T teach the cubs to be aware that the store wants to tempt them to want stuff so their parents will spend more money, and it's completely lacking in empathy for the other parents who appear in the store with their own gimmie-afflicted cub at the end of the story.

This book has value as a discussion tool about what NOT to do.

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Summary: Perfect to lose your kid's gimmies!
Review: This book works wonders to lose your kid's gimmies! I read this book to my three year old and he not only loved the story, as he does all Berenstain Bears books, but he understood the message.

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Summary: Perfect to lose your kid's gimmies!
Review: This book works wonders to lose your kid's gimmies! I read this book to my three year old and he not only loved the story, as he does all Berenstain Bears books, but he understood the message.