Review Date: 7/28/2009

Helpful Score: 1

My daughter is over a year old now, but I wish I had read this book when she was a little baby - it would have saved me so much grief! I think in the end, I ended up pretty much following most of their advice on my own, but it would have been so much better to have known how to handle a baby like this from the start rather than through months of experimentation on my part. If you think your child might be "high-need", then they probably are & you should get this book!

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Review Date: 11/20/2009

I wish that I had read this book when my daughter was a newborn. I think the most important thing I would have gotten out of it, was not how to get her to sleep, but to readjust my expectations of what is "normal" for babies. In retrospect I did many of the things that Dr. Sears recommends, but through my own trial and error. It would have helped to just get his tips straightaway and realize that she wouldn't sleep through the night for a lot longer than I would have liked. He is a big proponent of co-sleeping, which we did not do - partially because neither my husband nor I wanted to and my daughter never seemed to sleep that way either. She always had to be sitting up in her bouncy seat, swing or carseat to sleep more than 15 minutes. I know he says you'll all get more sleep if you're together, but I to this day can't sleep well if she's in the same room with us - I hear every little noise she makes. I used to be able to sleep through tornadoes - funny what motherhood does to you!

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Review Date: 6/22/2014

This was a great book for getting a glimpse of what homeschooling really looks like. Although some of the information is a little out of date, as for costs, I was surprised at how relevant almost all of the material was. It gave me some great things to think about when deciding if home schooling is right for us.

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