Customer Reviews

Salt in Your Sock: and Other Tried-and-True Home Remedies

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Easy to read. Organized and super easy to find the ailment you are looking for. This book is full of all the "family secrets" for treating what ails your child. I've referenced it...my neighbor has referenced it...and I will likely be using it again in the near future. If I can avoid putting chemicals into my kids, I will!

This book gives honest, real-world advice that is great for any parent, but particularly new parents. Dr. Beard's approach and expertise allow you as a parent to trust the advice she dipenses. Most importantly, the advice really works! It has given me confidence and peace of mind.

The book focuses primarily on herbal treatments for children; it was an okay read, but not what I expected. I wouldn't keep it in my library.

Lillian Beard has never heard an old wive's tale that she is not willing to embrace as completely true. She writes "I am convinced that home remedies actually do something positive." What she bases this conclusion on is a complete mystery. There are hundreds of folk traditions that are known to be not just unhelpful, but outright detrimental to children.

Dr. Beard believes that she must be open to this traditional wisdom otherwise "it would create a climate of doubt and mistrust that could run counter to everyone's primary goal: ensuring teh health and well-being of a child". She drifts astray, however, when she is so moved to be "non-judgemental" of parents that she encourages them to partake in a variety of questionable practices, such as dabbing pimples with urine, placing onions in the child's socks to relieve fever, placing a metal spoon in a child's mouth and having them drink water to relieve hiccups.

What parents really need when they consult a pediatrician, is a voice of reason that will help direct them away from all the poor advice that parents are bombarded with from the internet, talk shows and home journals. Lillian Beard prefers to hold your hand and sing, "Kumbaya".