On Becoming Baby Wise, Book Two: Parenting Your Five to Twelve-Month Old Through the Babyhood Transition (2) - Softcover

Ezzo, Gary; Bucknam, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1932740155 ISBN 13: 9781932740158

Publisher: Parent-Wise Solutions, 2012

Synopsis

It's reality-check time! You're at least four months into your tour of parenting, and the complexities of child training are starting to multiply. As your baby is growing physically, his mind is adapting with an increasing awareness to new sights, sounds and sensations. He can now interact with his material universe with greater attentiveness. Now feeding time is more than a biological response initiated by a baby's sucking refles. For the five-month-old, meal times become a complex and conscious interaction between child and parent, food and drink, preference and need, likes and dislikes, must do and won't do! Watch out - big changes are coming to their world and yours! In his 26th year in practice, join pediatrician Robert Bucknam, M.D. and co-author Gary Ezzo to discover the proven methods that more than 8 million parents have made their own with incredible success.  The second half of your child's first year of life holds some of the most powerful windows into their cognitive and emotional growth and development."As a practicing pediatric neurologist, husband, and father, I fully endorse and highly recommend Babywise 11.  The principles found in this book are immensely practical and universally applicable.  If the principles of structure and routine found in this resource were widely applied in the early months and years as they should be, I would see far fewer patients over the age of two with behavioral deficiencies and neurologic challenges. "                          --- Robert P. Turner, M.D. of Richmond, Virginia

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Review

Demand the behavior and correct thinking will eventually follow. Gary Ezzo, a graduate of Talbot Seminary and School of Theology, teams up with pediatrician Dr. Robert Bucknam to explore the role of moral development in a child in this compact sequel to their controversial primer on newborn behavior, On Becoming Baby Wise. Four glowing, compelling commentaries highlight the very first pages of the book, which attempts to guide parents through a critical time in their child's growth and learning (ages 5 through 15 months). The authors make many rational arguments about a parent's duty to expect and encourage consistent, acceptable behaviors when the child is very young; over time, such training will lead to the development of moral concepts. While the outcome is desirable and the method--when used consistently--does work, this particular book lacks the many supportive examples and research references found in the first Baby Wise. The authors encourage readers to familiarize themselves with the original, and openly state that their methods are more effective for graduates of Baby Wise parenting--not demand-fed babies. So, this particular child-rearing book is not meant for all. Chapters feature topics including moral foundations, mealtime and wake-time activities, highchair manners, discipline, and teaching basic sign language. Most of the information is more philosophical than practical. Don't expect to learn "how," so much as "why." --Liane Thomas

From the Author

This is truly an amazing and exciting phase of a baby's life, in part because babies achieve a level of alertness in which they begin to intentionally interact with people, places, and things that make up their developing world.  This is also a time of great cognitive expansion when Baby purposefully begins to make, literally, "baby decisions" from which learning patterns begin to take shape.  Correspondingly, it is a time when Moms and Dad's actions and reactions profoundly impact those "baby decisions."  This is why parenting in the second half of the first year moves out of the category of wonderfully-simple to challenging and complex.In On Becoming Babywise 2, we connect all the dots between the passive world of infancy and the multiplicity of growth factors emerging during the second six months of life.  The more parents understand the multifaceted babyhood transitions, the more confident they become in managing their baby's unfolding world.Stage One:  Birth to 5 months-- On Becoming BabywiseStage Two: 5 to 12 months -- On Becoming Babywise 11Stage Three:  12 - 18 months -- On Becoming PretoddlerwiseStage Four:  18 - 36 months -- On Becoming ToddlerwiseStage Five:  36 - 84 months -- On Becoming ChildwiseAs a pediatrician for the last 26 years, the healthy growth of children is the central concern of my practice.  In On Becoming Babywise 11, we want to help you with this challenge of growing healthy children emotionally, physically, morally, and cognitively.  Enjoy the journey!

Edition details

• Publisher: Parent-Wise Solutions
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1932740155
• ISBN 13: 9781932740158
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 150