Nanny to the Rescue!: Straight Talk and Super Tips for Parenting in the Early Years

by Michelle LaRowe

Book Overview

America's nanny offers a large dose of healthy parenting advice with secrets for raising happy, secure, and well-balanced babies and toddlers.
Babies don't come with instructions. And since today's parents are so overwhelmed with schedules and demands, they have little time to bone up on their parenting skills. Often removed from grandparents and relatives who in times past lived next door or just down the street, they have...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0849912326
• ISBN13: 9780849912320
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Great book

Being a new mom, I needed a book to guide me in toddler parenting w/o compromising discipline and love- this was the book I needed. It was a great plus to know that the author is a Christian (my faith also), thus she explains parenting from Christ's perspective.

GREAT READ!! helpful and entertaining, too!!

I read this book, and fell in love with it! The author makes it an easy read, by using eveyday situations and making them humurous!! She explains why many parents may have trouble with their child, and then TELLS YOU WHAT TO DO to make thing better!! As a nanny myself, and being in the child care business for 7 years, I know that the ideas she gives are proven to work!! Every mother, father, and cargiver shold read this book, even if you dont have problems with children!! It's so funny, I laughed out loud many times, thinking to myself, "That's SO true!!!!" If you get this book ,You WONT be disappointed! I promise!!

Great Book for parents, nannies and guardians alike!!!

I loved this book. This book has so many great ideas and advice for people who take care of children. When I was reading it I had alot of my own questions answered as well as found some things out I never thought I would of asked. I also was excited to learn things that are helpful for me in the future when things come about I am sure I will have questions for. I think that if you had to have one parenting book to fall back on then this would be it. Thank you Michelle Larowe!!!

Finally a book with a few instructions on questions all new parents have on children

After reading Nanny to the Rescue, I was very impressed with the straight forward answers that Michelle LaRowe has given to everyday questions that new parents , grandparents or child care providers have and how these questions were answered. This book has shed light on alot of subjects and has certainly opened my eyes as to the simple ways those embarassing moments we go through as parents can and should be handled in a very calm and effective way. When I see a parent struggling in the supermarket with a toddler in tow who is screaming because he cant have that sugar coated cereal that he sees on television and the mom is arguing back with him, I would love to go up to this mom and hand her a copy of Nanny to the Rescue. I would recommend this book to anyone who is blessed enough to have a child in their life.

Since I actually read the book.......

...I can actually comment on it. Michelle has real, practical advice that works. Her tips are designed to install confidence and clarity in the minds of parents and caregivers who are all-too-often told to just "follow their instincts" as the other reviewer said. The problem is that with all the conflicting ideas, theories and "psychobabble" out there today, too many parents don't know what their insticts are anymore! This helps them get back to grass roots basics of raising intelligent, well mannered, happy children with love, discipline (which means to teach, not to punish, btw) and real-life practicle advice. This is a must read for all those parents out there who are tired of all the rude, misbehaving children they see who run all over their parents out in public and all too often, are amongst their friends. By following Michelle's suggestions, you will NOT be the parent that everyone is afraid to tell the truth to about how your children really behave.