On Becoming Preschool Wise: Optimizing Educational Outcomes What Preschoolers Need to Learn (On Becoming. . .)

By Gary Ezzo and Robert Bucknam

Book Overview

Preschoolers are just plain fun. They know enough about life to enjoy it with enthusiasm and gusto, but not enough to survive very long without supervision. They are an independent lot, but would never want to be left home alone. They live on praise and encouragement, but a single stern look could bring them to tears. They can be shy and timid one moment, yet confidently insist "I can do it!" the next. They possess a ferocious appetite for play and order their lives according to the single principle that nothing is too difficult "for me." Play is their world and play is their tutor, taking them to the land of discovery that only ceases each night when they close their eyes in peaceful slumber. Above all else, preschoolers are learners and On Becoming Preschoolwise is the teaching tool for parents.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0971453284
• ISBN13: 9780971453289
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Parent Wise Solutions
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful parenting methods!

The Ezzo parenting style is wonderful! It helps plan a child's path with love and understanding as well as with disciplne and enforcement - something that is so rare anymore, but essential and vital to raising responsible children!

Great Series!!

The On Becoming Baby Wise series is fantastic. I would recommend them to parents and parents to be. They helped tremendously with our toddler's sleeping habits. We have been following the parent directed feeding method with our newborn and I can see the benefits in just her first four months of life. I want to buy these books for everyone I know who is a parent. I can't thank my neighbors who bought these books for us enough.

LIFE SAVER for 1st Time Mother

I started reading this book when my son was 10 weeks.At that time, he was waking up every four hours to eat, he cried anywhere from 1 to 4 hours a day for unknown reasons, and I was exhausted. Two days after I put him on a schedule suggested in this book, he started sleeping the entire night and no more unexplained crying. As a matter of fact, family and friends comment on his happy nature. Because I am a first time mother, I didn't know how many hours he should be sleeping or awake. Before reading this book, I didn't realize that he was exhausted and this was the reason for the crying. Once he started napping about 5 to 6 hours during the day, then he began sleeping all night. Sleep begets sleep!

Wonderful!!

This book is a lifesaver....I started with Baby wise, when my daughter was an infant, and have moved on up. Everyone is amazed at my daughter's "good nature". She is polite, respectful, takes good naps, and is a happy balanced child.

Old world parenting meets the 21st century

We have raised all three of our children based on Ezzo (and Biblical) principles and they are wonderfully well-adjusted happy children. If you want your child to throw tantrums, scream at you, demand their own ways, and are basically just little animals then don't buy this book - it just might change them. Imagine, children that are self-controlled, polite and enjoyable - that is what you will have based on their basic guidelines.