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Summary: Run, run run away from this book
Review: This book advocates abusive parental behavior. If ever a book needed to be burned, this is it. I pity any child being raised according to Ezzo's advice.
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Summary: Read what the AAP and other experts say about Ezzo
Review: This book and others by Ezzo are nothing more than one uneducated (Ezzo has no background in child development or medicine) and over-opinionated person's views on raising children. Ezzo views children as a parent's PROPERTY rather than RESPONSIBILITY. As I read the book I noted many areas where it was obvious that Ezzo was overemphasizing his own pet peeves.
Most of the parents I know who support these parenting methods are over-eager for a "show-child" that perfoms for the parents. They want there 3-year-old playing piano, etc. Most of them put their children in every group activity available, anything that gets the parent attention.
I caution parents to consider the long term results. In the short term you get a robotic, subserviant child. In the long run you get what Ezzo himself got, grown children who want no part of their parents' lives.
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Summary: Sanity for a stay at home mommy running a home child care
Review: This book has been incredible! After reading it I feel more like a competent mommy and not so overwhelmed and out of control!
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Summary: Encouraging book with good ideas
Review: This book has been most helpful to us. We've read the entire book and found it to be very encouraging and insightful. It has provided us with a much needed parenting framework. Without this book (and Babywise I & II) our parenting would have probably been based on whatever seemed right at the time. After being in contact with our child, many, many people have said they wished they would have had access to this type of information when they were raising their children.
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Summary: I HATE These So-Called "Wise" Books!
Review: Try Dr. Sears' "Family Dicipline Book." It works better than this abusive method of parenting.
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Summary: I HATE These So-Called "Wise" Books!
Review: Try Dr. Sears' "Family Dicipline Book." It works better than this abusive method of parenting.
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Summary: Tried it twice and love it.
Review: We use the common sense methods in the author's book Baby Wise and Child Wise, and we are thrilled. Our children, now 3 and 7, are happy and healthy. They both slept through the night at very early ages, and have no problems putting themselves to sleep. Their regular schedules and knowledge of behavioral boundries makes them confident and secure. My 7 year old excels at school, loves piano and French and is well liked by classmates, teachers and other parents.
Those who denounce these books seem to have more of a political opposition to the author than a genuine concern for raising children, and the extremist rhetoric makes that obvious. Take it from a parent who has actually read and used these principles--they work!
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Summary: Like it or not... It Worked!!!
Review: With our first child, we used Babywise. It was a huge success. He was sleeping through the night, gaining more than sufficient weight, and now as a toddler understands his boundaries in the household. The first years of his life were not wasted on his parents always submitting to his schedule. Due to our great success, we were influenced by a friend's disgust with us using an "insensitive and uncaring method". So with our second, we used an alternative method she suggested. My wife nursed all night long for his first 6 months. He learned fast that our world was revolving around him. Thinking we had done something wrong after our long nights, we talked with the friend that suggested this alternative. Turns out she always had the same problems with her children. At 9 months and 6 months respectively, she tried cutting out the nightly feedings for her children cold turkey. She considered this 1-2 weeks of 1 hour crying to be expected and normal. I've now realized that it is much more caring of a parent to establish this routine from the beginning. We have now started our toddler on the wonderful Toddlerwise, and our 7 month old infant that was raised with the alternative method - is now a much happier baby having made the switch 2 weeks ago. Though these ideas in this book have been an incredible success, one must always use man's ideas in moderation. You are the parent, not the book.
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Summary: EZZO.INFO - AAP warnings
Review: www.ezzo.info
Please read the info here before buying any books by this author. He has no qualifications in child development to be writing anything. His books are full of medical inaccuracies. Many children have been harmed with his book's methods. The AAP has warned against them. PARENTS BEWARE!!!
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