Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780954821937
ISBN: 0954821939
Label: White Ladder Press Ltd
Manufacturer: White Ladder Press Ltd
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: September 12, 2005
Publisher: White Ladder Press Ltd
Studio: White Ladder Press Ltd

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Useful for parents and carers alike
I have no children myself but work as a freelance educator now and was a professional childcarer previously. I would recommend this book to any parent (even if their child is now past the "terrible twos"), as it's entertaining as well as useful (and many of the tips are transferrable to older children too). It also comes across as a comforting read - reading Dunford is like talking to a wiser, more experienced friend who offers advice without criticism whilst simultaneously reassuring you that you're not a terrible parent, everyone makes mistakes, and your child will be okay.

I would also recommend this to carers - it will help you understand what parents go through, you will laugh with recognition at the Emperor, and there is plenty of good advice that you will probably be able to incorporate in your own practice.

And it's probably a good cautionary tale for prosepctive parents, too, to crystallise some thoughts they may be having and prepare them for the reality of what's involved.

Rating:

- Fab fab fab
"There are so many books about parenting on the country's bookshelves already, but How To Survive the Terrible Twos is a welcome addition. It doesn't preach. There are numerous tips for coping with tantrums." Dublin Evening Herald

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- Three cheers for Caroline Dunford
Two year olds don't come with a manual (unfortunately) but if they did, this would be it. I've read countless books written by so called child behaviour 'experts' and child psychologists (many of whom don't even appear to have children themselves) and none of them have been anywhere near as appealing as this book by Caroline Dunford.

I don't want somebody giving me 'theoretical' advice of the should do's and shouldn't do's of bringing up a two year old. I want good, honest, practical advice written by someone who's been up to their neck in it and knows first hand what they're talking about. Caroline Dunford is just such a person.

I cried when I read this book. At last I feel like I'm being offered guidance by someone who understands me and who has experienced what I've gone through.

Parenthood isn't a spectator sport. If you want the best advice for playing the game, get it from someone who's been out on the field, not watching it through binoculars.

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- An affirming read
Having lived through the "terrible twos" myself, I wish I'd had this book to hand when I did. All to many books give you the opinions of experts, the "correct thing" to do, while all the time making you feel inadequate that your own toddler refuses to comply with the advice given from on-high.

Caroline Dunford's book isn't like this - she tells you the story of her year with her toddler, the self-proclaimed Emperor, as it happens. It gives you a sense of perspective that all toddlers are different, that the expert advice doesn't always work, and that - in the end - it doesn't matter, parents find a way to make it work.

It does contain advice, of course, but this is kept to side-bars, and you're left with the impression these were added to highlight problems the author had, and some approaches to solving them - rather than The One True Way of Toddler Raising.

If I had to buy only one book about dealing with a toddler, this would be the one. If I needed more advice to back it up, Christopher Green's "Toddler Taming" would take second place on my shelf.

Rating:

- Like a smile on the bus
An incredibly warm, honest and funny account of one woman's ride on the high-speed, big-drop, corkscrew rollercoaster that is raising a two year old. Readers with little Emperors of their own will nod in recognition, smile in sympathy and be enormously reassured by the sensible, practical and child-positive advice for coping with the more challenging aspects of parenthood to which many are afraid or embarrassed to admit. Every hair-tearing, wall-chewing besieged diary entry is drenched with love and humour.

Try searching the Internet for "How to Survive the Terrible Twos: Diary of a Mother Under Siege" or Ebay for "How to Survive the Terrible Twos: Diary of a Mother Under Siege".

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