The Attachment Parenting Book : A Commonsense Guide to Understanding and Nurturing Your Baby Summary and Reviews

The Attachment Parenting Book : A Commonsense Guide to Understanding and Nurturing Your Baby
by William Sears, Martha Sears

The Attachment Parenting Book : A Commonsense Guide to Understanding and Nurturing Your Baby
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Author: Martha Sears, William Sears
Edition: Paperback
Published: 2001-08-07
ISBN: 0316778095
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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Book Review: Dr. Sears is as sound as a pound!
Summary: 5 Stars

Forget your conventional baby manuals by Dr.Spock and the like. Send Gina Ford packing, and sack that nanny who knows best. Babies on schedules who are required to be 'convenient' are liberated! This book will reassure you in every way about following your intuition and your instincts. It doesn't just present one model for babycare, but describes a flexible world where baby's needs come first. We are so out of touch with these, that parents today have lost the art of breastfeeding in their sleep, or doing housework with a baby in a sling. But do not worry, the Sears will guide you through these skills and more, and make it all sound perfectly normal, healthy and achievable. Unlike many childcare gurus, the Sears eat humble pie as they tell how they came to fully appreciate the importance of attachment parenting after having four of their own eight babies. Their anecdotes are reassuring as you wonder how on earth to be 'attached' and get dinner on the table for 6pm. But the Sears are very accommodating and reach out to the working mothers, the adoptive parents and the 'burnt-out' parents in their readership.

The book is magaziney in style, with columns that jump all over the place, such that as you turn the page it can be hard to know where to continue reading. The multitude of subheadings and quotes add to this, so I wouldn't recommend it to the highbrow academic. But the authors must know that most reading for new parents is done in snatches here and there, rather than long cover to cover stints. Buy this for baby-shower presents, and for new parents. We do not have a rounded enough view of babycare without more of this type of baby manual.

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