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The Happiest Baby on the Block : The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer
by Authors:
Harvey Karp
Paperback
Average Customer Rating:
Karp gives it a five star but... I don't!
I read this book cover to cover, not knowing how to deal with my colicky baby. We tried everything and nothing worked. We saw Dr. Karp and he demonstrated his famous shooshing sound while pounding my then 6 month old baby's back real hard. My son looked at him like "what are you doing to me?" His suggestion at the end of our appointment was "Read my book and call me and tell me what you think, will ya? I need to know if I am brilliant or not." He also thought our son was 6 weeks old (normal healthy well-developed 6 month old!). My husband and I were shocked. We were so unimprssed by both Karp himself and the book! Besides there's nothing new in this book and is extremely poorly written!!
I don't know how to rate this book...
This book is one of the best books on babies I've ever read, and one of the worst written, and I think you should buy it.
Now don't get me wrong. I love the information in this book, and I'm fond of the author's voice. Our first baby was fussy, fussy, fussy, and screamed for hours each night. 8 years later, we had our second baby and a copy of The Happiest Baby on the Block and life was so very different. I regularly amazed family and friends with my ability to instantly calm our screaming little girl. Everything our culture told me about how to calm our first baby was wrong, and everything Dr. Karp told me about babies the second time was right.
But the writing is incredibly bad. Dr. Karp babbles, there's no other way to put it. He takes 10 times as many words and pages to say anything than he really needs. If I were his English teacher I would give him a C-, hand him back his paper, and tell him he could raise his grade by making it one quarter the length. Of course, then he wouldn't have a book long enough to publish...
By all means buy this book if you have a newborn, or are expecting, or have a friend with a baby. The ideas are so useful and sensible that they are truly revolutionary for a culture that has lost so much knowledge of how to raise truly happy babies. But when you read it, think of it as spending a long evening with your old uncle, who never tells a story straight through, but has nuggets of true wisdom you can't get anywhere else.
5 stars for content, 1 star for form, bonus star for being so likeable.
Wife gives thumbs up
My wife says this is the one book she wishes she had when our kids were babies. She gives it to all our friends having babies and they love it.
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