"Skillful Mom vs. Crying Baby"

Author: Harvey Karp
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: A must-read! Dr. Karp perfectly combines ancient wisdom with modern concepts, offering profound insights on how to raise children. The "Five Steps to Calm" worked instantly on our baby! A delightful yet academically rigorous book that shines with wisdom from beginning to end. It introduced me to those wonderful and novel ideas about newborns—truly groundbreaking. Dr. Karp teaches through entertainment, delivering his in a friendly manner. New parents often struggle to soothe crying babies, but their efforts often come to nothing. Grandparents and parents begin to believe that the babies' relentless crying is "just colic," a common childhood illness they are powerless to help, only waiting for it to disappear automatically after four months. It turns out that our various explanations for infant crying are based on myths and misunderstandings from centuries past. Once we realize this, that age-old mystery—the reason why babies cry and how to make them smile—suddenly becomes crystal clear.