Comments on: Child of Mine: Feeding With Love and Good Sense http://bestbabybottlesreviews.com/child-of-mine-feeding-with-love-and-good-sense/ Only The Best Baby Bottles For Our Babies! Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:53:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Emily A. Springer http://bestbabybottlesreviews.com/child-of-mine-feeding-with-love-and-good-sense/comment-page-1/#comment-225 Emily A. Springer Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:59:49 +0000 http://bestbabybottlesreviews.com/child-of-mine-feeding-with-love-and-good-sense/#comment-225 I did not like this book. Someone with an infant cannot find time to sit down and read a novel. We need something short and to the point. I was very disappointed in this book. Rating: 2 / 5 I did not like this book. Someone with an infant cannot find time to sit down and read a novel. We need something short and to the point. I was very disappointed in this book.
Rating: 2 / 5

]]> By: Anonymous http://bestbabybottlesreviews.com/child-of-mine-feeding-with-love-and-good-sense/comment-page-1/#comment-224 Anonymous Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:45:58 +0000 http://bestbabybottlesreviews.com/child-of-mine-feeding-with-love-and-good-sense/#comment-224 It alarmed me that this book puts the weaning information in the 6 to 12 months section. Doesn't the author know that the AAP recommends breastfeeding for at least a year, and that the World Health Organization recommends breastfeeding for two years,with no recommended weaning age? I wonder if the author simply ignored that information and included her own opinions about how long a child should nurse instead of actual facts. Rating: 2 / 5 It alarmed me that this book puts the weaning information in the 6 to 12 months section. Doesn’t the author know that the AAP recommends breastfeeding for at least a year, and that the World Health Organization recommends breastfeeding for two years,with no recommended weaning age? I wonder if the author simply ignored that information and included her own opinions about how long a child should nurse instead of actual facts.
Rating: 2 / 5

]]> By: Elissa Neil http://bestbabybottlesreviews.com/child-of-mine-feeding-with-love-and-good-sense/comment-page-1/#comment-223 Elissa Neil Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:23:27 +0000 http://bestbabybottlesreviews.com/child-of-mine-feeding-with-love-and-good-sense/#comment-223 although this book had lots of information i needed more direction and actual meal ideas to get started. Rating: 2 / 5 although this book had lots of information i needed more direction and actual meal ideas to get started.
Rating: 2 / 5

]]> By: Anonymous http://bestbabybottlesreviews.com/child-of-mine-feeding-with-love-and-good-sense/comment-page-1/#comment-222 Anonymous Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:13:48 +0000 http://bestbabybottlesreviews.com/child-of-mine-feeding-with-love-and-good-sense/#comment-222 The main message of this book is that parents should not try to control and stress over their children's feeding practices. Babies (and toddlers) are pretty well regulated and know what and how much to eat. The parent's job is simply to provide a variety of healthy and nutritious foods and ensure a pleasant mealtime atmosphere. The rest is up to the child.<p>I wholeheartedly agree with this premise--parents should not try to hoax babies into eating or to restrict a chubby toddler's diet. I think that most of the other nutritional advice in the book is valid as well--that we should not attempt to mold out children's bodies into a media-dictated "perfect" form, that eating meat and drinking whole milk is essential, and that the occasional piece of candy is not the end of the world. <p>The reason I felt compelled to write this review is that to a lot of attachment parents this is superfluous information. They already know they should work with, rather than control their children. The division of responsibilities comes naturally to them. And, even though the book offers a very gentle, very child-let approach to feeding, it is far less understanding in other aspects of child rearing. For example, it highly recommends the Ferber technique of sleep training--reading through these pages might be painful for gentler parents.<p>In short--the book offers valid information on feeding, but this information is superfluous to people who already practice an instinctive and gentle parenting. Rating: 3 / 5 The main message of this book is that parents should not try to control and stress over their children’s feeding practices. Babies (and toddlers) are pretty well regulated and know what and how much to eat. The parent’s job is simply to provide a variety of healthy and nutritious foods and ensure a pleasant mealtime atmosphere. The rest is up to the child.

I wholeheartedly agree with this premise–parents should not try to hoax babies into eating or to restrict a chubby toddler’s diet. I think that most of the other nutritional advice in the book is valid as well–that we should not attempt to mold out children’s bodies into a media-dictated “perfect” form, that eating meat and drinking whole milk is essential, and that the occasional piece of candy is not the end of the world.

The reason I felt compelled to write this review is that to a lot of attachment parents this is superfluous information. They already know they should work with, rather than control their children. The division of responsibilities comes naturally to them. And, even though the book offers a very gentle, very child-let approach to feeding, it is far less understanding in other aspects of child rearing. For example, it highly recommends the Ferber technique of sleep training–reading through these pages might be painful for gentler parents.

In short–the book offers valid information on feeding, but this information is superfluous to people who already practice an instinctive and gentle parenting.
Rating: 3 / 5

]]> By: Xu, Yang http://bestbabybottlesreviews.com/child-of-mine-feeding-with-love-and-good-sense/comment-page-1/#comment-221 Xu, Yang Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:46:05 +0000 http://bestbabybottlesreviews.com/child-of-mine-feeding-with-love-and-good-sense/#comment-221 there're some useful information , esp. psychological ones. However, i don't like this book myself. Rating: 2 / 5 there’re some useful information , esp. psychological ones. However, i don’t like this book myself.
Rating: 2 / 5

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