The Fussy Baby How to Bring Out the Best in Your High-Need Child (Sears, William, Growing Family Series.)

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"Let him cry it out!"
"Are you feeding that baby again?"
"Don't you ever put her down?"

Parents of fussy babies hear these kinds of remarks all the time. In fact, they may even ask themselves these questions. Faced with a baby who demands to be held, nursed, and comforted much of the time, new mothers may begin to doubt their own intuition, even as they long for a few hours of uninterrupted sleep.

The first edition of THE FUSSY BABY, published in 1985, helped parents think about their demanding babies in a new light. These are children with high needs; children who are smart enough to ask for the high-quality caregiving that will help them develop their full potential.

In this revised edition, attachment-parenting experts William and Martha Sears bring new insight to the tried-and-true advice that has worked for so many families over the last two decades.

Respond to baby's needs and will build up your own sensitivity. Trust baby to tell you what he needs, and he will learn to trust himself and eventually grow to be confident and independent.

Look for new information on colic (the "hurting baby"), gastroesophageal reflux, and the challenges of breastfeeding a fussy a baby, along with updated references, reorganized chapters, and lots and lots of mothering tips.

THE FUSSY BABY has carried many families through times with a high-need infant. This new edition brings that tradition of sensitive, intuitive parenting to a new generation of caring mothers and fathers.

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great information.......2007-10-01

a really great directed approach for attachment style parenting. my only criticism is that the intended audience seems to be moms who are able to stay at home and dads that are away all day in the workforce. there aren't any approaches or direction for moms that need to return to work and dads who stay home, or for both working parents. it would be great to just be able to make the choice to not use babysitters, but that is not a viable option for a large majority of parents these days.

Book of Hope!.......2004-03-09

I am a new mother of now a 3 month old daughter. From the beginning people would always remark how alert she was being that she is so young. Ava was a very restless sleeper, so I started to sleep with her on my stomach. Now she sleeps 8-9 hours a night. Everyone tells me that I am spoiling her and that is why she always needs to be held and I should put her in her crib to sleep. YOu start to doubt what is best for your child. This book really helped to reassure that I am doing what I FEEL is best for my daughter. Never doubt your instincts is a good message this book delievers. I suggest this book to anyone, regardless if they have a high needs baby or not!

supportive, a must read for the parent of a colicky baby.......2002-06-14

My daughter was colicky for about 4-5 months. I was really glad to have found this book when she was 4 months old. (Wish I had read this when she was a newborn.) I almost cried when I read it. All those months I had struggled with this screaming little baby and wondered if I was doing the right thing. Other people told me I was spoiling my baby and I should change the way I was dealing with her crying, but I couldn't bear to let her suffer alone in her crib.

This book is very supportive for parents who want to nurture and calm their fussy, colicky babies. I thought that the Sears' provided nice tips for handling baby and I also found there advice on breastfeeding helpful.

My baby is now 10 months. She is trusting, good humored, smiley, and very sociable. I feel like all my hard work has paid off. I don't think that I would have been able to do it without this book.

Surviving the first year of baby's life.......2000-08-05

Even though my child was past six months by the time I had the energy to read this book, it validated the various strategies that I had attempted in order to have some relief from the screaming. My child screamed 95% of the time when we first brought her home and slept less than 8 hours a day. Many of these strategies provided me with at least temporary relief. Therefore I highly recommend the book, especially for the chapter on creative ways to soothe a fussy baby. Also, validation of the feelings of shared by parents of similar babies helps one feel understood at a time when perfect strangers constantly offer useless advice. The chapter on hidden causes of fussiness in infants is one that is still of interest to me as we as parents continue our search for answers to our struggle. I read other reviews that were not as complementary, however as a parent of one of the most difficult children that I have ever met (professionally, I deal with parents and children) this book was especially helpful to me in looking at our struggle from many different angles and feel encouraged that we will survive. Some are opposed to the idea of the "family bed" however if a child is truly difficult, parents are willing to try "ANYTHING". The "ANYTHING" is what I believe the Sears have willing explored and shared. The only thing that would have been better for me was if this book would have been on videotape or audiotape so that my arms would not have been free to consume the information contained.

I need REAL solutions!.......2000-07-14

I am tired of buying books which don't give any sort of clear solutions to the problems they are addressing. This book basically tells me what every mother and father already know. We don't need to know it will go away with TIME. To write a book like this and basically tell us what we already know should be a crime. I should have looked at it's ranking number before I bought it, I think that says enough.

I did take one more chance and also bought Dr. Marc Weissbluths, "Sweet Babies", now that's a book that is worth buying and really what all parent's of colicky infant can use. Thank God someone knows what he is talking about!

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Clear, Concise & Easy to refer back to.

9 Ways To Bring Out The Best In You & Your Child
Maggie Reigh
Manufacturer: Northstone Publishing
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Clear, Concise & Easy to refer back to........2006-06-08

Maggie Reigh is a parent educator who has spoken at numerous seminars all over the world and regularly appears on a local Canadian television news program.
Her book is unique and provides real solutions for you to deal with your children from toddlers to teens. She never makes you feel like a bad parent or like you aren't good enough. Instead she gives you this wonderful book filled with ideas & stories that will inspire you to be the parent you always wanted to be.

Each of the 9 sections is laid out clearly in an easy to read format. I tore through this book and frequently pull it off my shelf for another look as I search for new ideas on how to deal with my head strong children. It shows you ways to be friends with your kids while remaining the parent and helping them to make decisions on their own.

Something you will want to pass on to your own children & friends.

Bring Out The Best -- In Your Child And Yourself

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A Real Life Saver for Anguished Parents
A Complete Parenting Philosophy
How to build trusting relationships
Indispensable Guide for Parents
New Twist on an Old Idea

Bring Out The Best -- In Your Child And Yourself
Ilene Val-Essen
Manufacturer: Quality Parenting
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Parents learn to bring out the best within each child or teen -- and discover the best within themselves. Understand your children at a deeper level: they actually want to be their best. Difficult behavior is, in reality, a cry for help. Recognizing that truth transforms the relationship; you see with new eyes. Learn why all parents "lose it" at times and receive practical help through an effective Three-Step Process. Humorous illustrations and exercises help you develop the skills and attitudes which enable you to create the family you want -- a family based on mutual respect.

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A Real Life Saver for Anguished Parents.......2001-05-16

I was fortunate enough to find this book during a most difficult time in the life of my (then) 15 year old daughter. She was one of those children that challenged every family structure and desire for peaceful coexistence. The love was unquestioned, but the pain we were experiencing was also profound. Through this book, I learned to reframe the difficulties and experiences -- and have more emotional distance so that I could truly be an effective parent for my daughter. It was a long and gradual road but today I am very grateful to report that my daughter and I are VERY close and she is building a healthy and happy life for herself. We both thank Dr. Val Essen for her significant contributions to our family relationships.

A Complete Parenting Philosophy.......2001-05-15

As a therapist and a parent, I am continually searching for the ultimate parenting book that I feel comfortable recommending to clients because it has worked for my family. I have found that book in "Bring out the Best." It's more than just a handbook of practical parenting skills, it presents a complete parenting philosophy that is respectful, insightful, forgiving and non-shaming. The beauty of the book is that it is simultaneously individual and universal. Rather than dishing out cookie-cutter parenting skills, Dr. Val-Essen asks the reader to explore the ideal parent that you would like to be and leads you through the process of making that dream a reality. After reading this book, I have developed a new level of respect for my children. I see them more clearly as seperate individuals. I have learned to recognize their unique strengths and to work with them rather than againzst them. In a sense, I have fallen in love with my children all over again. These new insights, coupled with Dr. Val-Essens's emphasis on assertion skills, has helped transform our family. We communicate more openly, enjoy each other more genuinely, and the level of cooperation in our home has risen dramatically. Parenting is not only the most difficult job anyone will ever undertake, it is also the most humbling. Dr. Val-Essen's book gently guides the reader through this process with honesty and compassion. As a result, I feel more confident in my abilities as a parent and my children reap the benefits. What could be better? I highly recommend this book.

How to build trusting relationships.......2001-04-23

This book came very highly recommended by a teacher of a parenting class. I purchased it because I am a classroom elementary school teacher and because my brother needed some quality parenting tips. I COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN!!! When I recommend this book, I don't recommend it to parents exclusively. It is more about fostering relationships and helping people to achieve their highest potentials. It deserves a wide readership and is not limited to interactions with children. To me, this book is a whole philosophy of life (as in the quotations it includes from Mandella and Goethe)and has applications far beyond building family relationships. It addresses all meaningful interactions and relations with others. It is a book about building trusting relationships and has a wonderful philosophy of life.

Indispensable Guide for Parents.......2001-03-30

Dr. Val-Essen's book has been a life-saver for our family! Application of her easy-to-understand, intuitive techniques yielded significant results with our four-year-old son within six weeks. More to the point, the book taught us many things about ourselves that we were overlooking, but that our child obviously was not. Once the book showed us how to see things about ourselves from his perspective more clearly, the rest of our parenting work became a joy rather than a burden. Our household is now back on track and our family interactions are increasingly refreshing and enjoyable for each of us. Thank you Ilene! A number of our friends with whom we have shared even a fraction of Dr. Val-Essen's ideas have experienced positive results as well. We highly recommend this book to parents with children of any age.

New Twist on an Old Idea.......2000-02-14

Bring Out The Best -- In Your Child And Yourself is a wonderful exploration of emotionally responsible parenting. There are many texts out there with some terrific techniques and methodologies aimed at helping your child learn to behave or otherwise acclimate to the adult world. This book takes the issue one step farther. Dr. Val-Essen helps us parents examine how we can get in the way of a meaningful relationship with our own children. In simple language and with lots of real-world examples she helps us learn more about ourselves and therefor more about growing closer to our children. With this book as a guide I've been able to step out of the way and allow my children more room to grow into themselves in their own unique way. I highly recommend Bring Out The Best -- In Your Child And Yourself and it's philosophy, not to mention the great illustrations!

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Excellent book for all children and parents

Bring Out the Best in Your Child
Patrick Jeske
Manufacturer: Pelican Publishing Company
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Excellent book for all children and parents.......2000-09-16

I ordered this book with doubt only because I had never heard of it before. I have never read a book that helped my family so much. All children are different and this book covers the huge realm of all attitudes and tempermants. Again, this book comes highly recommended

The Fussy Baby (How to Bring Out the Best in Your High Need Child)

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The Fussy Baby (How to Bring Out the Best in Your High Need Child)

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The Fussy Baby: How to Bring Out the Best in Your High-Need Child
William Sears
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How To Bring Out The Best In Your Child (Volume 1)

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How To Bring Out The Best In Your Child (Volume 1)
Ray C. Beery
Manufacturer: The Parent's Association
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A series of ten illustrated pamphlets on training children.

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How To Bring Out The Best In Your Child (Volume 1)
Ray C. Beery
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How To Bring Out The Best In Your Child (Volume 10)

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How To Bring Out The Best In Your Child (Volume 10)
Ray C. Beery
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How To Bring Out The Best In Your Child (Volume 3)

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How To Bring Out The Best In Your Child (Volume 3)
Ray C. Beery
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Manfred von Richthofen became a fighter pilot on the Western Front in August 1916. By January 1917, Richthofen had shot down fifteen aircraft had been appointed commander of his own unit. He painted the fuselage of his Albatros D-III a bright red and was nicknamed the Red Baron. In June 1917, Richthofen was appointed commander of the German Flying Circus. Made up of Germany's top fighter pilots, this new unit was highly mobile and could be quickly sent to any part of the Western Front where it was most needed. Richthofen and his pilots achieved immediate success during the air war over Ypres during August and September.

Manfred von Richthofen was killed on 21st April 1918. Richthofen had destroyed 80 allied aircraft, the highest score of any fighter pilot during the First World War.

This book is divided into three sectors of the WWI front line in which von Richthofen operated. Each area is conveniently reached within hours. Airfield sites, memorials and the graves of Manfred's famous victims are described and directions for the battlefield walker are included with information on related museums and historic sites with special association with this most famous of fighter pilots.

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In the Footsteps of the Red Baron
Norman Franks
Manufacturer: Leo Cooper
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ASIN: B000K70UEO

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We are a nation of gardeners, and we take pleasure in tending our backyards. But this pleasure sits uneasily with our knowledge that the places where most of us live are running out of water. We suspect that our lawns and many of our plants from the damp climates of northern European gardens are too demanding of scarce supplies, but can't imagine our streets and gardens without them. The Old Country opens our eyes, and minds, to other possibilities. It does so by telling us stories about our natural landscape. George Seddon believes that the better we understand the delicacy and beauty of our natural environment, the more 'at home' we will feel as Australians. This passionate, wise and witty book, enriched with breathtakingly beautiful illustrations, suggests that the answers to our water problems lie here, at home.

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The Grove of Fremantle.......2006-08-10

The Old Country

Australian Landscapes Plants and People

George Seddon
Cambridge University press
ISBN-0-521-84310 3
270 p.

"The men who dwell in the city are my teachers, and not trees or the country".

Socrates recorded by Plato

Known affectionately as the Professor for Everything, George Seddon is properly trained and versed in literature, history, philosophy and environmental science. Whereas most spend a life turning the soil in one field, Seddon's remarkable career is a concerted interweaving of several. In the spirit of renaissance men and 18th century polymaths Seddon bridges the arts and the sciences. Although he is not, strictly speaking, qualified in aesthetics or design, his work tends, in a classical sense, toward aesthetic values and qualified judgment of the both the landscape we've been given and the one we are making for ourselves.

Since Landscape Architecture is aesthetic and because it is (or rather, likes to think of itself as) a holistic integration of art and science, it is no mistake that he adopted the incipient profession of Landscape Architecture in Australia and became its guiding intellectual. Even though he has not and could not be expected to have remained at the vanguard of contemporary landscape architectural practice and theory (which is now enjoying a global renaissance) his musings have always been of relevance to Australian landscape architects and greatly appreciated as such. Many will be truly saddened to open `The Old Country' and read that this is his last book and you might also excuse me then if this reads in part like an obituary.

The Old Country is not the magnum opus or manifesto one might expect for a finale. Nonetheless, it is an ambitious project because not only does it offer both a scientific and cultural history of the main plant families of Australia but as he works through essentially factual material he reflects on Australian culture in general. That he can do this with a restrained passion for his topic, a respect for the intelligence of his readership and concision of expression will come as no surprise to those who know his work.

Through a cultural and scientific history of Australian plants Seddon's essential argument is that the genuine post-colonial maturation of Australian culture is dependant upon both a scientific and poetic depth of knowledge of Australia's unique ecologies. Although over-reliant on subheadings and on occasion scatty, this book is testament to Seddon's exceptional ability to synthesize knowledge from a broad range of sources. Rich in information drawn equally from science, history and his life-long collection of noteworthy anecdotes, the book is an easy read and lavishly illustrated. Seddon awakens (or re-awakens as the case may be) us to the wealth of our nation's botany and its evolutionary, ecological and cultural significance on a range of levels. The seemingly innocuous topic of our plants and how we value and use them provides a lens with which to examine the broader values we apply to our unique environmental circumstance, values that have determined and will determine the fate of Australian culture and the exceptional genealogical inheritance it still tends to take for granted.

Without laboring any of them, and often in good humor, The Old Country is a book that brings clarity and reason to seemingly intractable and emotive arguments about the use of Australian plants. Vexed issues surrounding the use of Australian native plants and their evil counterparts, the weeds, are, if not resolved in this book, then at least set out in a manner that will ensure future debates are well informed and reasonable. Similarly, Seddon has a subtle way of bringing together the best of the European enlightenment (of which he is surely a product) and both the indigenous and popular suburban culture of Australia. Underlying this is his usual interest in, and knowledge of how language represents and indeed misrepresents reality and the book is laced with poetic references that embellish the pleasure of the reading rather than just show off his erudition.

While there is much in this book for a range of experts in different disciplines and professions, The Old Country is written for a general audience and will probably be filed in the Gardening section in most bookshops, a section that could surely do with less image and more substance. Although underscored and tempered by the empirical evidence of his own gardening experiences, this book is not a `how to do it' guide, it is rather, a `how to think about it' guide. Thinking about one's garden by understanding its broader temporal and spatial origins and its possible future consequences is surely a prerequisite to transforming the suburban culture of Australia, a culture academics and professionals have otherwise largely left to TV show presenters to lead.

Apart from some general knowledge, sorting out some fuzzy old disputes and inspiring a greater appreciation of our indigenous plants, there is however, not a lot exactly for the contemporary landscape architect in this book. Devoted to the topic of design, Chapter Eight for example is disappointingly brief and for no apparent reason historically curtailed to Ellis Stones, Edna Walling and Oliver Dowell, the latter of whom is, upon the evidence gathered, radically overrated. In this book Seddon has, for whatever reason, chosen to completely ignore the postmodern profession of landscape architecture. Given that this profession alone is the one that can properly advance beyond the garden fence the themes he holds dear (and is also one that needs his advocacy), this omission is troubling.

In another life, Seddon was a great landscape architect but in this one he fulfilled the profound lot of the scholar-gardener. It is in his various gardens, and particularly his last in Fremantle, that he has dug into a dry land with a pen in one hand and a spade in the other. As he frankly relates in this book, the practical experience of gardening has both confirmed and at times contradicted his landscape theories. His water-wise oasis is, as he would have it, a model for the broader treatment of our landscape and when it comes to plant selection and the larger ecological ramifications of our choices, this book and the garden it stems from is a cautionary tale worth consulting.

Despite fashion, Olives are out. Despite puritanism, Erythrina (sp) are in! One wonders how the Oleander's that lean over his southern fence fit into the scheme of things? More importantly, he explains the absurdity of speaking of Australian plants as some interchangeable lumpen mass, rather, in this vast country there is a mosaic of specific ecologies in specific bio-regions and each species has a particular cultural and ecological history and his cursory but well researched introduction to the nation's botanic archives opens avenues of further research.

Over the entrance to Plato's garden, the Academy (the grove at Academos), was the prohibition "Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here" and while the Greeks contemplated that, the topsoil of their landscape washed away and with it ultimately their civilization. Seddon has spent his life in the garden of the academy but as this book testifies, he has, unlike Plato's mentor Socrates, learned much from the trees and scoured most of the country for clues as to how we should properly live here. Perhaps his greatest knowledge was however learned from his own garden, over the entrance to which could be inscribed "Know thy place".

Heeding this message, as he hopes we will, we might not only save the soil upon which our culture is dependant, but we might also achieve what Socrates said was the highest aim of all, to "know thy self". Gardeners come to know themselves through caring for their patch and cultures are, or should be the same. This deceptively simple and eclectic book is after all, about just that - it is about Australia coming of age by better understanding and appreciating its unique place.

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The fourth book in a six-book series tying in with VOR, the new adventure role-playing game by FASA. A scientist manages to tether a probe connecting Earth's universe to the Maelstrom, giving him and a beautiful alien pilot one desperate chance to free Earth from the swirling grip of the cosmic vortex.

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Good read.......2001-08-05

I suggest this book to anyone who read and enjoyed the other Vor novels. I hate it when people tell me the story and/or give away plot information, so I won't. Read it.

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