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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Misleading title, dreadful book,
By Reader "Reader" (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Growing Up: Attachment Parenting from Kindergarten to College (Paperback)
This is not a book for attachment parents as evidenced by this comment referring to cosleeping "...sleeping with parents can be sexually stimulating. These sexcual fanatasies are usually repressed or put out of mind, since children have no acceptable way to act on them." Are you kidding me??? The family bed is not sexual in any way, and I was offended that the author would suggest this.
This book is a collection of the authors ramblings on a very wide range of topics covering from birth to college. There are lots of strange comments such as this that opens the chapter on adoption, "Adoption allows parents who are unable to produce their own biological baby to raise a child born from another woman." The ideas for discipline are laughable - put your child in his room for five or ten minutes to settle down, or "grimly communicate to a child that the behavior is not acceptable." In the section about adolescents it says if you learn something from a child's diary that is serious, to deal with it but don't reveal the fact that you "snooped." This doesn't represent an AP family's honesty and trust. She also warns parents of adolescents on a do/don't list: "Don't brag about them." and "Try not to overreact to an upsurge of profanity." She also says not "to comment about a teenagers pimples, weight or odor in either a positive or negative way." I'm at a loss to understand the purpose of this book and don't see how it can be labeled as attachment parenting.
25 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Garbage,
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This review is from: Growing Up: Attachment Parenting from Kindergarten to College (Paperback)
I found this book worse than bad -- it's not just useless but if you follow its advice I suspect it's harmful. I followed the model from Dr. Sears' books in doing attachment parenting for my child from birth to now (he is six). I bought this book because it was the first book I saw which purported to describe how "attachment parenting" could be applied past 6 years old. But this book is essentially just a collection of the author's personal opinions about what is "right" and what is "wrong". The book cites neither to any research nor even to the author's personal experience. And even as to the author's opinions I found them contrary to the spirit and praxis of attachment parenting.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Banal; Nothing New Here,
This review is from: Growing Up: Attachment Parenting from Kindergarten to College (Paperback)
I was very excited about the title of this book, as all of the literature I have seen on attachment parenting pertains to very young children. However, the book basically just regurgitates very non-confrontational old adages about parenting that I can't imagine anyone would disagree with, and that most of us already know. There's nothing new here that's helpful. It's just a waste of time.
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