| ||||||||||||||||||
Did you know you can trade in your old books for an Amazon.co.uk Gift Card to spend on the things you want? Plus, get an extra £5 Gift Certificate when you trade in books worth £10 or more before June 30, 2012. Visit the Books Trade-In Store for more details. |
Product details
|
More About the Author
Product Description
Review
A hugely entertaining as well as edifying read and packed with fascinating facts. A classics. (Guardian )
A fascinating study. (Time Out )
The perfect panacea for any pro to-parent faced with a barrage of contradictory advice on how to bring up their child. A hugely entertaining as well as edifying read and packed with fascinating facts. A classic. (Guardian )
Ought to be compulsory reading for new mothers. (The Week ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
A fascinating study. (Time Out )
The perfect panacea for any pro to-parent faced with a barrage of contradictory advice on how to bring up their child. A hugely entertaining as well as edifying read and packed with fascinating facts. A classic. (Guardian )
Ought to be compulsory reading for new mothers. (The Week ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Product Description
Parents have long been bombarded with conflicting advice on how to bring up their babies: from Locke, Rousseau, and Truby King to Spock, Penelope Leach and Gina Ford. Behaviourist warnings in the 1920s about physical contact ('Never hug and kiss them. Never let them sit in your lap') swung to Jean Liedloff's 'continuum concept' that babies should be wrapped round mum and fed on demand. Today enthusiasts for the 'family bed' are at war with Gina Ford's call for a return to the strict routines of pre-Spock days. Who is right and who is wrong?
In this updated edition of her classic account of how and why the experts' advice has changed with changing times, Christina Hardyment analyses the anxieties of our own age and gives parents much-needed confidence in their own ability to choose the advice that best suits them and their babies.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Browse and search another edition of this book.
Browse and search another edition of this book.
First Sentence
At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the typical baby was helped into the world by a self-taught midwife, licked with the 'basting tongue' or scoured with salt to remove the 'slippery glue' from its skin, and swaddled tightly on to a board. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the typical baby was helped into the world by a self-taught midwife, licked with the 'basting tongue' or scoured with salt to remove the 'slippery glue' from its skin, and swaddled tightly on to a board. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I'm delighted that a new and updated edition of Dream Babies is coming out. I have a well-thumbed copy of the 1984 edition, which I've often turned to to remind myself that fashions in childcare come and go, and that "experts" frequently get in the way of maternal instinct. One of my favourite books, and I'll definitely be reading the new version.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I had a copy of this book when my first child was born in 1984. By showing how the fads and fashions of childcare developed and changed for each generation it gave me the confidence to trust my own judgment and intuition with my own babies instead of taking the latest shiny new childcare manual as a kind of bible...I would recommend it to any new parent...
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
From start to finish, Dream babies gives an exciting look into the history of child rearing from potty training to disipline from the 1700s to the 1980s. I couldnt put this book down and have read it over 6 times in the last 4 years.
How things have changed!
Many things that was taken for proper upright upbringing of ones children shocked me to the core and made me think of what the NSPCC would think nowadays.
The authoress takes you through an amazing journey which you can 'see' in your minds eye.
The book includes photograghs of old fashioned perambulators, cots and nursing devices of old and is packed full from start to finish with advice of old from famous people as Spock, Locke, Truby King and Freud.
A must to read for anyone who is interested in childhood history.
How things have changed!
Many things that was taken for proper upright upbringing of ones children shocked me to the core and made me think of what the NSPCC would think nowadays.
The authoress takes you through an amazing journey which you can 'see' in your minds eye.
The book includes photograghs of old fashioned perambulators, cots and nursing devices of old and is packed full from start to finish with advice of old from famous people as Spock, Locke, Truby King and Freud.
A must to read for anyone who is interested in childhood history.
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Was this review helpful?
Let us know
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Dream Babies - Childcare advice from Locke to Ford
A thoroughly well researched book on how we've ended up in the mess of childcare fads and how going back to basics might be the best approach. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Historia
An excellent book
Dream Babies is an excellent book, very well researched and in a very readable style. You get the impression that the author has been very thorough and thoughtful in putting the... Read more
Published 19 months ago by Jane
Well worth the read
This is a fantastic overview of babycare literature and the different trends that have emerged over the past two and a half centuries. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Sharper
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
