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ellie_outdoors's review against another edition
4.0
Favorite quotes:
“Parents should be guides, not guards. Mentors, not monitors. Fight the fear. Trust yourself, so the time spent with your child is relaxed and happy.”
“When you have known real danger, you don’t wear yourself out imagining it.”
“Worrying about what might happen makes you weak. Our little guy needed us to be strong”
Listened to this on audiobook.
“Parents should be guides, not guards. Mentors, not monitors. Fight the fear. Trust yourself, so the time spent with your child is relaxed and happy.”
“When you have known real danger, you don’t wear yourself out imagining it.”
“Worrying about what might happen makes you weak. Our little guy needed us to be strong”
Listened to this on audiobook.
rbalir's review against another edition
I did not need to read the whole thing - I might come back to it later.
annemc's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
medium-paced
4.0
Overall pretty good advice: relax, let your kids play outside, spend less time on screens, etc.
babbleradish's review against another edition
3.0
I appreciated the general message, but Scott's simultaneous acknowledgement and then prompt dismissal of the sociocultural and political factors that contribute to parental anxiety (income inequality, lack of access to high quality childcare or outdoor spaces) was annoying and unhelpful.
cpalmerpatel's review against another edition
3.0
I like that the author brings in her unique experiences of living in some many countries. It gives her a lot of different models of what perfect parenting looks like in different parts of the world. That being said, although she starts the book by assuring you that you are an amazing parent and there is no wrong method, she still comes out strangely assertive in a lot of key areas. For instance, she insists that the sleep routine you’ve used on your newborn infant when they’re a few days old is the habit they got accustomed to. While you can shift their habits, this make take some sleep training.
I can imagine any number of parents who didn’t quite know what they were doing in the first few days, so to suggest that they’ve entered a pattern is ridiculous. Especially as your infant is still recovering from their birth themselves, and your milk hasn’t come in so feeding patterns may be erratic.
She makes a lot of good recommendations that resonate me, but her assertiveness is at odds with the premise of the book (I.e. different cultures have different ideas about parenting and there is no “right” way)
I can imagine any number of parents who didn’t quite know what they were doing in the first few days, so to suggest that they’ve entered a pattern is ridiculous. Especially as your infant is still recovering from their birth themselves, and your milk hasn’t come in so feeding patterns may be erratic.
She makes a lot of good recommendations that resonate me, but her assertiveness is at odds with the premise of the book (I.e. different cultures have different ideas about parenting and there is no “right” way)
chelseymarie's review against another edition
2.0
The author comes so close to recognizing her privilege and realizing that America’s abysmal parental leave and persistent income inequality might be to blame here, but then chalks it all up to anxious American tendencies to buy organic and some other nonsense. This book is also heteronormative as fuck. Read literally anything else.
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