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Book Review: Punished by Rewards

February 4, 2009

While brows­ing in a book­store back in the US last Novem­ber, I came upon the book Pun­ished By Rewards: The Trou­ble with Gold Stars, Incen­tive Plans, A’s, Praise, and Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn.  It sounded pretty inter­est­ing so I pur­chased it and pretty much devoured it.  Before writ­ing a review, I fig­ured I better […]

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Book Review: The No-Cry Nap Solution

January 18, 2009

I’m a fan of Eliz­a­beth Pant­ley and her No-Cry series of books.  Her book, The No-Cry Sleep Solu­tion: Gen­tle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night, helped give me the courage to lis­ten to my heart.  So many peo­ple would ask me if Oliver was sleep­ing through the night, that I started worrying […]

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Book Review: The Parking Lot Rules

December 30, 2008

I’m not really sure what led me to buy Park­ing Lot Rules & 75 Other Ideas for Rais­ing Amaz­ing Chil­dren.  I guess it was the glow­ing Edi­to­r­ial Reviews on Amazon.com, as I bought it a cou­ple months ago and as of today, there are only five cus­tomer reviews (4 of which gave 5 stars). When it […]

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Book Review: Parent Effectiveness Training

September 11, 2008

Now that my son is enter­ing his tod­dler years, I wanted a book to turn to for help with dis­ci­pline. I read through reviews of dozens of books and set­tled on three, Par­ent Effec­tive­ness Train­ing: The Proven Pro­gram for Rais­ing Respon isi­ble Chil­dren by Dr. Thomas Gor­don was the first I read. The first edition […]

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My Favorite Books for New Moms

August 13, 2008

The Girl­friends’ Guide to Baby Gear by Vicki Iovine and Peg Rosen I liked the common-sense approach to prod­uct reviews in this book, along with use­ful shop­ping lists and rec­om­men­da­tions. While not purely a bargain-hunters’ bible (for that, try Baby Bar­gains), this book still gives good advice about what you need, what you don’t need, what’s […]

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