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The message is important - nurture and love is important and is what should drive you when raising your child. But her solutions are ridiculous. "Don't have a schedule; let baby sleep whenever they want to for as long as they want" - cool, what about if you have to send them to daycare, or you need to have some consistency in your life for sanity's sake? She also encourages co-sleeping which yeah, I'm sure it's loved by babies all around, but what if the parent doesn't want to or what if we care about the dangers of it as well? Oh, and be sure to take all this time to yourself for a yoga class and herbal tea breaks, just call on your village who is surely willing to help out whenever you want them...
While this author shares some helpful tips for calming the stress response to increase our ability to nurture at the end, she completely misrepresents research on sleep training which leads me to question all the other research she cites throughout.
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There was useful information in here, but overall I found it very repetitive. I think I could have listened to a 15 or 30 minute summary and gotten as much out of it.
I was just a bit disappointed because I was hoping for a lot of specific data/studies referenced given the author qualifications, but there really wasn't much of that at all. I actually might try to see if I can get a physical copy (I listened to the audiobook) just to see if the references/footnotes might satisfy me more. I felt like the whole time the author was saying "we know that nurturing is the best thing for brain development" and I was left saying... HOW? How do we know? The reason I picked this book up was specifically to try to get scientific perspectives and evidence as to why this was the case. Sometimes we do touch on this info but not to the level I would have liked. Maybe the author was just trying to make it engaging or more palatable, but I really wanted a lot more detail and data in the chapters themselves. Instead I felt like I was just having the same thing said over and over in different ways with little variations in each chapter.
Overall good, I think a summary article or essay would have communicated just as effectively as this full-sized book.
I was just a bit disappointed because I was hoping for a lot of specific data/studies referenced given the author qualifications, but there really wasn't much of that at all. I actually might try to see if I can get a physical copy (I listened to the audiobook) just to see if the references/footnotes might satisfy me more. I felt like the whole time the author was saying "we know that nurturing is the best thing for brain development" and I was left saying... HOW? How do we know? The reason I picked this book up was specifically to try to get scientific perspectives and evidence as to why this was the case. Sometimes we do touch on this info but not to the level I would have liked. Maybe the author was just trying to make it engaging or more palatable, but I really wanted a lot more detail and data in the chapters themselves. Instead I felt like I was just having the same thing said over and over in different ways with little variations in each chapter.
Overall good, I think a summary article or essay would have communicated just as effectively as this full-sized book.
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glad i read but definitely some cherry picking of studies and evidence going on
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