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Child Sense: From Birth to Age 5, How to Use the 5 Senses to Make Sleeping, Eating, Dressing, and Other Everyday Activities Easier While Strengthening Your Bond With Child

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Just bought Child Sense this weekend.. I actually couldn't put it down. I instantly recognized one of my children as a visual learner, based on Ms. Dunstan's detailed behavioral quiz -- and my other child as a taste/smell. I even identified my husband as a visual learner and me as a taste/smell.

What's kind of cool about the book is that you learn so much about your child but you also really get an insight into your own behavior and how you react to your children based on your own dominant sense. The quizzes are fun to take and later after determining your child's dominant sense, there is a section that pairs two different types of learners together, say Auditory and Tactile. If you are an Auditory Learner and your child is a Tactile learner how best to handle conflict? The author's methodology seems accurate and very common sense.

You will get a lot out of reading this book, as I did. For instance, because I discovered my 8 year old daughter is a visual learner, I tried putting her vegetables in colorful little ramikins on her plate. I never realized that when the veggies touched the other food it put her completely off of them. The past few days I can get her to eat most of her veggies just because they are separate and they seem fun to her because of the way they are served. My 10 year old taste/smell learning son could care less (Taste/Smell learners have a a hypersensitivity to other people's emotions and desires. They seem to be highly intuitive.) He eats his veggies because he knows it makes me happy and that's very important to him. He says things to his sister like, "eat the chicken Olivia! Mommy spent all afternoon making it!"

I'm telling you, the book will teach you a lot - truly. It really gave me extremely valuable insight into my children and even my husband!

My sister gave me this book because it helped her understand her kids but she was sure that it worked on her husband so she wanted me to try it on my new girlfriend. Well it works! The book classifies kids but I guess in my case--people--into four categories: auditory, tactile, visual and taste and smell. (Taste and smell is one category). If you read this book and figure out the dominate sense of the woman you are dating, you really "get" what they are going on and on about, and why. In the case of my girlfriend, she is auditory, so she talks all the time. ...all the time! I am visual, so all I care about is how things look. So know I know when we boo a restaurant, all I am going to care about is how it looks in there but what she cares about is that it's not too loud in thee so we can talk all through dinner. I am starting to break the woman code! And it works on kids too: for the first time this year, Thanksgiving with the whole family was a breeze. It was kind of fun sitting back and looking at everyone and trying to figure out what sense they were. The only reason why I did not give it 5 stars is because this is a parenting book and I am a single guy. I am not ready to turn in my man card just yet.

I have worked with many very small children for almost 20 years and I am always looking for new tips on dealing with little ones. I remember the name of this author because she was on the Oprah Show when Oprah featured her and showed how she discovered a baby language. I bought the language DVD and tried the language out on several infants. Since it worked, I was excited to learn that this woman had come out with something new and I was anxious to try it. I liked everything about the book and the 4 classes of children she puts kids into were easy to identify once I kept reading the different characteristics over and over. It was exciting to classify the children I work with. One thing I did not like were the checklists because they were a bit confusing but once I read the rest of the book and then went back to the checklists, the checklists made more sense. This book helped me understand children and interact with them better. With my 20 years of childcare experience, I know every child is different and being able to look at them as one of four unique types makes my interaction with children more far more manageable.

The book was exactly what they said it would be. It. Shipped quickly. It fit the purposes I needed it for.

I did not like this book. I was intrigued when I started it, and very excited about the idea. I even got a notebook and pen and took vigorous notes. But the more I read, the more absurd it began to sound. I could not fit my children into any one category, nor myself. Yes, I understand you need to pick one that suits the individual BEST, but I couldn't even do that. Now, if I lumped all the traits together into one big category, we all fit into it. I just don't feel that you can put human beings into nice neat little units like this. Thanks.