Raising a Happy, Unspoiled Child

by Burton L. White

Book Overview

Required reading for parents who want to give their child the best start in life!

Must your charming five-month-old turn into a tiny terror? Are the "terrible twos" and public tantrums inevitable? Burton White, author of the classic The First Three Years of Life, doesn't think so. Basing his recommendations on thirty-seven years of research and observation, White shows how to bring up an independent, socially secure, and delightful...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684801345
• ISBN13: 9780684801346
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Touchstone Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Gran ayuda

Este libro ha resultado ser una gran fuente de referencia para nosotros. Hemos visto cómo enfrentar ciertas situaciones que si no tuviéramos este libro hubiéramos cometido varios errores. Lo recomendamos para todos los padres.

I am so glad I found this book!!!!

I have the nicest toddler I know, get compliments all the time on how reasonable and well behaved, confident and happy he seems to be, and I think that the advice in this book has been very important in achieving this so far. This book only deals with children up until 3 years old, since that is the age range the author's research covered. The advice is based on years of in-home observation of many many families, watching babies develop through the first few years of life, so it isn't just the opinions of a pediatrician, or a parent, or an educator. The parenting practices he recommends are the ones that they saw work over and over in many different real families.This book advises some very simple straightforward tactics, and advises you to stick to them over and over and over again, since a normal healthy child will test you over and over again to see if you will cave in, and how much power s/he has. You don't need a lot of options, you just need to stick to a few that work, and in my experience (with a willful kid, who was not a placid baby!), these work very well without making the child discouraged or inhibited in bad ways.And, he didn't make me feel at all guilty, I wasn't bored by the writing, and I didn't find it hard to look things up - the book is organized by age stages, so you can just look at the chapter that covers the age your child currently is.Another thing - his recommendations on toys and entertaining a baby are the best I've seen. He makes simple cheap toy recommendations, tells you what a baby really wants to be doing during each phase, and made it much easier for me to keep my son entertained!

Excelente libro para padres Primerizos

Este libro fue un obsequio de alguien que nos aprecia un montón a mi esposo y a mi y por supuesto que a nuestro bebito, es un excelente obsequio, guia para padres primerizos e incluso para aquellos que consideran que siempre se puede mejorar.... Es muy instructivo...y ayuda a comprender todo lo que va ocurriendo con el bebe desde un punto de vista distinto y positivo.

This Book Works!

I bought this book when my son was 4 months old. He is now 4 years old and he has had about one tantrum for each year of his life. Throughout toddlerhood (including the "terrific twos"), people - even strangers - have told me what a wonderful, delightful, well-behaved child my son is. In fact, one single friend of mine told me she never wanted kids and my son is the only child she has ever met that made her think she might be missing something. And most importantly, my son is almost always very happy...he is delightful! I highly recommend this book...but BOTH parents must utilize the methods in the book, or results will not be as good.

not for those who read "Parents" magazine

I am giving this book as shower gifts to all of my pregnant friends. Many of the books you read today regarding parenting children would lead you to believe that children who are bratty and spoiled just woke up like that one day. Dr. White believes that children have the ability to begin manipulation beginning at around age 5 months, and through experience, I know this is the case. I have been using Dr. White's suggestions and have found that although my child will throw "tantrums" every blue moon (she is two) - they only last a minute, never take place in public, and she knows that what Mama and Daddy says goes and that is that. Not a book for those parents who rationalize unruly behavior with the newfound assumption of the last 20-30 years that children are just "expressing themselves" when they lie on the floor in the Wal-Mart because Mama or Daddy wouldn't let them have some M & M's.