Parenting For Dummies 2e

by Dan Gookin and Sandra Hardin Gookin

Book Overview

Written by parents for parents

We humans are pretty clever. We've mastered fire, invented the wheel, calculated the age of the Universe, sent people to the Moon, built machines that think, and cracked the genome. So you'd think that with all our smarts, somebody would've come up with a surefire formula for raising kids. Maybe that's because every child, like every parent, is an individual, and no two parent-child relationships are ever...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764554182
• ISBN13: 9780764554186
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: For Dummies
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Must have!!!

I bought this book while I was pregnant with my first child. He is now three and a half and an awesome kid! We always get compliments on how well he acts in restaurants, other people's homes, movie theaters.....you get the picture. This book made me think about things that I never would have thought of, and I recommend it to everyone who is about to start a family and even to a few that already have kids and they can't handle them! My son is now a wonderful big brother to a baby sister and I could not be happier! I am ordering this book right now for a neighbor expecting her first.

this book was my support system

I had found this book to be one of the best, simplest and most supportive parenting books around. at the time my son was 7 -12 months, I was pretty much without a support system, and this book was my lifeline and my bible to parenting. It's wonderful.

Excellent easy-to-read reference book for all parents!

I found "Parenting for Dummies" easy and fun to read and filled with useful information for not only first time parents with newborn babies but also for parents with older kids as well. The chapter on communicating with your child was especially insightful.

Excellent for all those who deal with children

This friendly, easy reading book is for anyone who has to deal with children. Not only is it funny, but it has all the basic information all parents need to hear. I recommend it for everyone!

WONDERFUL, HELPFUL AND FUNNY!!

This is a great resource book. My husband and I were about to have our first child and were nervous about what to do with him. This book answered a lot of our questions and helped us to remember to have a sense of humor about the whole child-rearing process. I love the flow chart on what to do when the baby is crying. This is a definately better book than those "What to expect..." books!