Every parent or parent to be - a MUST read book...

[CrystalBoo]

Thanks heaps for your reassurance. We had a stretch of 5 hours last night, so I'm hoping it is passing, as you say. I will look into both those books as well - you can never have too much info! (or can you?! Just call me ditherer..)

[Bloom]

I've borrowed this book from the library and I've given it a brief "first read". Very interesting book with a lot of ideas that reasonate with what I would like to do with any my (future) children (only just started TTC).

I think it's great about how it balances out the need to be emotionally available to comfort and support your child with the need to take time out to refresh and renew your own resources. However, I wonder how easy this is to do in reality...

I'm going to read the book again and take a more careful note about the "science" side of things and look up some of the research it quotes. There is such a thing as a good scientific study vs a poorly designed and unreliable one, so I want to be sure that it's the good kind! (not that I'm saying it's not, just that I'm going to check it out).

[BellyBelly]

The thing I love about the science of the book, as a mother who loves gentle parenting, is that it's really easy and instinctive - as well as being able to teach me a few tricks that my kids have responsed really well to. It's all gentle but backed by science and I love that it gives you tools in a world where mothers are so isolated and unsure about how to parent most of the time. Bring back the village!!!