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Good Parenting Advice	Customer Rating:
This is a really good book. It has 366 pieces of parenting advice (one for each day of the year). Most of the advice is really good and practical. The author is both a psychologist and a dad, so he has credentials both ways. I really enjoyed this book. One star is missing. That's because there were a few pieces of advice that I did not agree with. But I did agree with most of them.

Wonderful book!	Customer Rating:
This book hits the nail on the head. I wish I had read it when my 15-year-old son was a baby. Very good advice for parents. I bought some of his other books but just finished this one and can't wait to read/learn more.

A Year of Daily Common Sense.	Customer Rating:
A daily refresher of wisdom, that is too often forgotten. Would be great in the format of a perpetual desk calender.

Love it, love it, love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I am a professional nanny of 12 years and I have to say, reading this book changed my life and everything about the way I work! I have always been a very fun loving, yet strict caregiver but I have felt pulled between what my instinct tells me to do and what the parenting "experts" say. I have found myself being guilted into hours and hours of playing dress up, holding children while they throw temper tantrums and explaining my choices until I am red in the face to a small child who is not listening. I thought that was my job, and the job of any parent or caregiver. Although I wanted so bad to be able to say "no I will not play with you right now" I always was made to feel like I might harm their "self esteem" if I did not drop everything and consider how they might feel if left to play alone for a while. There are so many books on raising children and many of them focus on teaching you how to not harm your childs "delicate" self esteem. This book gave me permission to be a person, even while at work. I dont have to be a slave to a young child in oder for him/her to turn out right. In fact, I learned that I do them more justice when I refuse to be the 24/7 playmate/friend and just focus on making sure they are safe. After reading this book, I have been better able to guide parents into putting their foot down and no longer being owned by their children. This is an amazing book and I recommend it to anyone who refuses to allow children to be the center of the universe.

Read Mr. Rosemond's book with discernment	Customer Rating:
Thinly veiled fundamentalism. Many of his ideas and musing are right on but under what appears to be expertise is harsh old testament fundamentalism. I don't want to throw the baby out with the bath water here but please read with care.