I read just about every baby/parenting book under the sun prior to DD's arrival, I thought I was all prepared and ready to face anything ... once she arrived and made it clear she was her own little person and didn't fit a pattern/routine, most of the books went out the window.
We had to find what worked for us.
Nowadays I find I borrow parenting advice in snippets, a little from one book, advice from a friend and maybe another idea from someone else's book.
No one book has all the answers and well, some are just plain rubbish but you have to try it out for yourself.
You do have to respect other parenting techniques though - even if they are in direct opposition to your own.
It is everyone's right to raise their child, and if the books by Ezzo are so tremendously popluar then the techniques must work for some types of parents.
I personally hate these types of parenting books, well all of them really, unless its comically done like the UTD book by Kaz whatshername.
I DID however really like the WOnderWeeks book. I wouldn't say its a parenting book, I just know that whenever DD seems to be a real turd I'd go to the book and yep sure enough we'd be smack in the middle of a wonder week. It did little to offer real help but I found that just knowing what was happening to her to help cause the behaviour was such a comfort.
I think someone else also suggested it, but I'd buy them another book one that is more of a gentle parenting one and slip it in as a present along with something else.
You never know, just because people think a certain way BEFORE a baby comes doesn't mean they will think the same way afterwards.
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