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Dream Babies: Childcare advice from John Locke to Gina Ford [Paperback]

Christina Hardyment (Author)
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Publication Date: 31 Oct 2007 | ISBN-10: 0711227993 | ISBN-13: 978-0711227996 | Edition: 1st UK hardback edition
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.

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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Frances Lincoln; 1st UK hardback edition edition (31 Oct 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0711227993
  • ISBN-13: 978-0711227996
  • Product Dimensions: 13.4 x 2.7 x 21.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 238,806 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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 )

About the Author

Christina Hardyment has written books and articles on dizzying range of subjects (including her collection of historical sewing machines, domestic technology, family life and a biography of Sir Thomas Malory). She lives in a rambling house in Oxford with a huge garden, where she is already planning camps and a treehouse for her seven grandchildren. Time off is spent sailing on the river, in a British Moth dinghy.

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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
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating history of childcare advice through the ages 11 Oct 2007
By Wendy V
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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars have confidence in yourself as childcare fashions change 27 May 2002
By liz.millner@which.net
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...
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Best Book on Historian childcare i have ever read! 18 Jun 2003
By Karen Clayton
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.
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