Title: Some good basics, with a helping of guilt
Product review: This book has some great stuff in it- the basics of how to carry a baby in a sling, how to breastfeed, growth charts, tips on gentle discipline- but in general, the advice segments of this book are judgmental, not well-balanced, and unreferenced. Sears & Sears make you feel guilty for trying any approach other than the "Attachment Parenting" style they espouse.I found Sears & Sears to be particularly unhelpful when it came to infant sleep. Their suggestions for how to get a baby to sleep longer at night, such as using all-cotton sleepwear and co-sleeping, are probably great for easy babies with extremely mellow temperaments. But what happens if your baby does not respond to quick fixes? Sears & Sears only suggest an increased level of responsiveness, and insinuate that resorting to any "sleep training" method risk doing permanent psychological damage to their child, something which is not true, and quite unfair to a desperately sleep-deprived parent.
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