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If you are tired of hearing, "...but in my day we did this, and they were FINE!" about parenting, you should smile politely, and then immediately read this book.

If you are interested in fun anecdotes from your cousin's housekeeper's grocer who knew this herbalist, feel free to skip.
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Informative. Conclusions are much harder to draw about this age then in her earlier book about infants. She is upfront about this, which is very much appreciated. Still heavily data driven.
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I added this to the TBR pile before I went back to school for child psychology, so the two things I experienced:

1. Holy redundancy. I imagine this is a solid resource if you're not already in the world of childcare, but I have almost no gauge because I've been doing professional development in the field of caregiving for years, and more recently it's been very thorough and academic. I really don't know how to judge how much of this information would be new to the average person. But it wasn't to me.

2. She draws some conclusions that I would argue there's a wealth of academic research outweighing. And I realized about the third time it happened that I should have been bookmarking it each time so I could give those examples, but I remember several times that she said two or three different methods or philosophies of caregiving are about equal and there's no real data to say that one is superior over the other, when I, not an economist but a scholar of child rearing, would say there is indeed enough evidence to suggest that some things are objectively better for your kids than others. Personally, I would sooner recommend specific parts of this book piecemeal to a curious parent, rather than handing over a copy with my recommendation.