The Pocket Parent
by Caroline Winkler, Gail Reichlin
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Book Reviews of The Pocket Parent
Book Review: Handy, Comprehensive, Bulleted Insight & Suggestions--FAST!!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you have a 2, 3, 4, or 5 year old, this book is the best quick reference we have discovered on the market. It is filled with hundreds of strategies to try for just about every behavior challenge you toddler/preschooler throws your way...Bad Words, Tantrums, Eating and Bedtime Refusals, the Gimees, Potty Training, Not Listening, Sibling Fights, Lying, Whining and many more. I like the way the authors say, "Each parent is the true expert of his/her child...no one knows that child better than his own parents." And, the author suggests that each parent choose the tips or plans that make good sense for their family and give them a try. We keep this book on our bedside table and consult it often for sanity saving suggestions on a weekly (sometimes daily) basis. You will read very sensible, simple advice that you often forget is an option in the heat of the moment when you are feeling angry, tired, embarrassed, stressed or simply at the end of your rope on a very bad day with the children. We love the sense of humor from the authors who also share some of their own personal parenting trials and triumphs. Helpful, reasonable priced and fun to read!!Book Review: Many Alternative to Yelling, Bribing, Threatening, Criticizing & Punishing
Summary: 5 Stars
This A-Z quick read guidebook, focusing solely on toddler/preschooler behavior, is a unique collection of doable toddler strategies. THE POCKET PARENT gives moms and dads hundreds of choices to choose from as to how to handle whining, biting, hitting, tantrums, disrespectful attitude, meal and bedtime refusals, bad words, morning crazies, potty training, sibling fights, parent deafness, interrupting, not picking up the toys and much more. I love the fact that the subjects are in an A-Z arrangement and that each chapter stands alone... Actually each bulleted suggestion stands alone. You do not have to read the entire book to get a tip and some humor to make your day a little less stressful. The short anecdotes are fun to read and very familiar! They help me know for sure that I am not alone in the challanges I face daily.
Although there are a variety of A-Z behavior compendiums for sale, this is the ONLY one that has 400 pages written just for this age group on every annoying behavior you can think of.
Detailed, upbeat, comforting and loaded with suggestions that really work...at least once!
Book Review: Good Ideas, But not reality,
Summary: 3 Stars
I have purchased this book because of the good rating this book has; But I think that the author may be writing based on a fantasy how he would like a two year old child to grow up.
The Book is base on two principles: one give your child what ever they want, the second one is if it doesn't work make a family meeting to talk about it.
Well I have a 2 & 3 year old: Children this age cannot be reasoned with and they do not understand the concept of a meeting. They do not follow a book of rules. Also it is irresponsible to give your child what ever they want, this is not a way of disciplining a child.
Except for the philosophy of the writer, I find the book hard & boring to read; It may be a good only as a reference book, to read one article at a time. Every piece of advise comes with some story that just does makes the book thicker but is not any importance or interesting to read.
The only part of the book that I did like is the "sanity savers"; these are short lines with advise how to deal directly with the problems as they happen.
Book Review: A Great Resource for Parents of Preschoolers
Summary: 5 Stars
"The Pocket Parent" is a wonderful, easy-to-access resource, which parents of preschoolers will surely refer to again and again. It offers practical, hands-on suggestions for handling many challenging, everyday parenting situations-often even supplying the words that parents can use. Readers will recognize themselves and their children in the real-life anecdotes the authors have chosen to illustrate their sound advice. I love many features of this book, but one of my favorites is the "Take Heart" section in every chapter. Each begins with "You're not the only parent who...," and offers reassurance (and alternative strategies) to parents who may feel they've "blown" a parenting situation.
I highly recommend this book. In fact, I predict that it will become a classic-trusted and frequently used by parents of two-to-five-year-olds.
-- Blakely Bundy, M.Ed., Executive Director of the Winnetka Alliance for Early Childhood and President-Elect of the Chicago Metropolitan Association for the Education of Young Children
Book Review: A Great Resource For Child Care Providers & Parents
Summary: 5 Stars
I had the pleasure of attending the talented author's Positive Discipline Presentation at the Chicago area's GOAEYC Conference recently. Her sense of humor and compassion both as an early childhood professional and mother is evident throughout the book. I have been using this book as a resource with the parents of the children in my care to give them ideas (in writing by someone other than me) of short easy to read suggestions of things to say and do that have worked for me. Then we will literally be on the same page--working as a team both at child care and at home to help the child. My Early Child Care Association purchased 150 copies of this book to give to our providers at a conference that we held on Communication in Child Care. It was very well received! So much so that we have asked Gail to speak at our next conference! This little book is a supportive, informative manual loaded with ideas without that annoying, preachy, sometimes condescending tone and is an ideal size to take with you anywhere!