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Summary: Not very wise
Review: Please, please, before you buy any Ezzo book, do a search on the internet and read the terrible things that have happened to babies and children because people followed his book.And don't be swayed by the argument "I modifed it to work for me." If you have to modify things that much, just buy a different book!!!
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Summary: obedient now, pushover or hostile later
Review: So many positive ratings are written by parents of only very young. What happens when kids get older and less reliant on the parents. Some teens don't survive their rebellion years.
It may be easier in short term to have obedience but It is NOT SAFE to raise an obediant child, I wonder how all those sex-abuse scandles took place, why didn't the parents know at the first sign?
Let them make mistakes with peanut butter and jelly not beer and autos.
There is something between letting your kids run without any expectations and being the dictator. Being a parent and a person with heart. I recommend
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Summary: We Love the Ezzos/Bucknams!
Review: This book is the greatest. Teaches loving parenting and effective discipline. We started out with Babywise, continued to Babywise II and now here we are with Childwise. I just re-read book #1 for our second child and love it just as much. I'm getting ready to re-read book #2 for the little one also.
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Summary: Simple....yet Effective
Review: This book, although not the first in the series it was the first I read and it changed everything in our home. We went from unconsistant,parenting the kind that goes from one fire to another to simple, consistant behavior guidelines. For me it took the emotional guesswork ouf of be "the parent". I have recommended this series to others and the results are consistant. Happy, disciplined children. My son was almost three when I first started read Childwise and before I was finished he knew that this book was changing his life. One day he was play on the floor and I was reading in a chair. He came over and gave me a big hug and said " Mommy I love you, but to you have to read that book?" Ah....a clear sign something is getting through.
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Summary: Ezzo is a monster!
Review: This is a disgrace to parents and children around the world. How could one possibly treat a child like this and feel good about themselves. It's pure abuse!
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Summary: You really don't need to buy this
Review: This is the best book I have ever read on parenting. What a wonderful way to teach morality, empathy and respect. I have no idea why so many people think this book is so bad. Do you not believe your children need boundaries? Do you believe they are capable of making most of their own decisions at the age of three? Are you attempting to prevent your children from ever crying by always giving them what they want? You're creating self-centered, disrespectful monsters. Get a grip! Be a parent, not a friend!
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Summary: You People Are Crazy
Review: This is the best book I have ever read on parenting. What a wonderful way to teach morality, empathy and respect. I have no idea why so many people think this book is so bad. Do you not believe your children need boundaries? Do you believe they are capable of making most of their own decisions at the age of three? Are you attempting to prevent your children from ever crying by always giving them what they want? You're creating self-centered, disrespectful monsters. Get a grip! Be a parent, not a friend!
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Summary: The best parenting book
Review: This is the best parenting book I've read. Traditional family values and parenting is exactly what I wanted to read about- not all this new age, family bed, child rules the world crap other people are advocating. All that will get you is a spoiled brat. He helps you instill in your child love, patience, empathy, respect and manners- all of which our country's children are in need of.
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Summary: Looks good at first, but...
Review: When I picked this up from the bookstore shelf and thumbed through it, it seemed filled with common-sense wisdom. I brought it home and my wife and I started reading it - not straight through, but just a few pages here and there. It was really looking like a valuable addition to our child raising knowledge-base.
But, I began to read more closely. Again and again, the authors advised that parents lie to their children. Yes, lie. The authors don't call it that, but that's what it is - and the particular lie which they favor, is, in my opinion, a particularly dangerous one.
They advise that in certain situations when a parent decides to refuse a child's request, the parent say "I don't have the freedom to give you that" OR "I can't let you do that" OR "I don't have the freedom to sign that for you". This is clearly a lie. The parent certainly has the freedom to do those things. In the situations described, the parent has chosen not to do or allow those things - for good reasons. The lie, to say "I cannot" or "I don't have the freedom to" is simply a device the parent can use to avoid taking responsibility for his or her choices. I very strongly believe that it is vital to teach children a sense of responsibility for his or her choices. For a father to systematically lie to a child about his resposibility for his parenting decisions is inconsistent with the goal of teaching the child responsibility for his or her own decisions.
For me, this very serious flaw began to unravel any trust I had in these authors. So, I took a look around, and was reminded of the controversy surrounding Mr. Ezzo's nutritional regimine for infants.
Ah yes, now I remember who he is.
Sorry, I don't need this book. I don't trust the authors.
There probably are some useful parenting suggestions here, but there are thousands of parenting books out there - and I would feel more comfortable referring to a book by T. Barry Brazelton or William and Martha Sears.
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Summary: You really don't need to buy this
Review: You can skip this book and save yourself some time nad money by using common sense and consistant discipline.
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