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A review by yvejr
Calm the Chaos: A Fail-Proof Road Map for Parenting Even the Most Challenging Kids by Dayna Abraham
Did not finish book. Stopped at 2%.
I felt extremely bored by the pace and the lengthy intro. It might have gone over better for me in print. This book didn’t sound like it was what I was expecting. Partially it could just be the narrator’s voice and tone (read by the author).
But the worse part was it felt like she was tooting her own horn without even mentioning how life as a problem child is hard. She was only focusing on the parents, and hers story, and how she wanted to give her child a successful life not in prison. Really put me off so this review is not very generous.
I’m not interested in a memoir where the parent is shown to be a hero while peddling her methods to others. Yes, parenting is hard. Yes, there are challenging kids. And yes, gold star for you doing the right thing and figuring it out, because many people don’t or can’t. But these kids are actual people. I bet if I could read further I’d see she saw it that way, but it came off as more seeing the child as a challenge with a trophy at the end.
If the paper book crosses my path I might try it again in case it’s just a bad first impression. I’d love to be proven wrong.
But the worse part was it felt like she was tooting her own horn without even mentioning how life as a problem child is hard. She was only focusing on the parents, and hers story, and how she wanted to give her child a successful life not in prison. Really put me off so this review is not very generous.
I’m not interested in a memoir where the parent is shown to be a hero while peddling her methods to others. Yes, parenting is hard. Yes, there are challenging kids. And yes, gold star for you doing the right thing and figuring it out, because many people don’t or can’t. But these kids are actual people. I bet if I could read further I’d see she saw it that way, but it came off as more seeing the child as a challenge with a trophy at the end.
If the paper book crosses my path I might try it again in case it’s just a bad first impression. I’d love to be proven wrong.