Well worth a listen (at 1.5 speed!)

Repetitious and corny perhaps, and definitely grating in places (perhaps because I'm English and can't abide the mega-keen, overfamiliar and effusive yank style of writing and declamation) but the basic ideas are sound and any parent would be wise to hear her out. I have learned much from this book and it has reshaped my thinking and understanding a great deal - would definitely recommend.

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struggling to finish

I am almost through with the book and im actually struggling to finish it...i think it can be shorter and straight to the point which might actually benefit some of the good ideas in there and not make tgem lost with all the repitative material...

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Negative and unhelpful book

This is my first time ever leaving a book review. There was so many issues I felt compelled to review this.

The writing and tone throughout was unprofessional, polarising, and in places, factually incorrect. Throughout, there is a common thread arguing that these methods are the best and the only way, and that those who chose other methods are wrong, and worse, potentially damaging. We all know, at the most fundamental level, that there are no two babies that are alike, and no two parents that are alike. All parents are doing is what they genuinely think is best. I have encountered parents and professionals who are humanistic, responsive and child-centred who would challenge many of the assertions made in this book. I am a mental health professional and academic/author and if I know one thing, I know that is no wrong or right way in relation to supporting a child though aspects of their life such as sleep. Any of the suggestions made which could have been helpful to me were undermined by a defiant, authoritative stance made here by the author, who was even sarcastic at times when describing the wrongs of other methods. I have never come across this before and found it to make for unpleasant listening, and unnecessary- If the solution is efficacious and evidence-based, one should never need to attack the beliefs, work and actions of others.

Final point- The book mentions certain forms, spreadsheets, without which you cannot proceed to the next chapters, steps in the process. How audible customers should get around this, was never addressed.

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Made me sleepy listening it was so boring. Maybe I should play it to my baby.

Nothing in it I didn’t learn from Gina Ford ironically.

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Don’t waste your money.

This really doesn’t translate well into an audible book.
Perhaps seeing the tables spreadsheets she’s describing in painful detail is fine when written down but listening to it is beyond excruciating.
Also, I got around half way through before I decided I couldn’t bare it a second longer, but all she kept repeating was how she’d transformed babies sleep patterns with her method with glowing reviews from case studies without actually telling you how it’s done. Perhaps that bit comes at the end if, unlike me you can endure it that long. I’d give this 0 stars across the board if it was possible

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