Title: Pacifiers, Blankets, and Bottles
Review: I found this book valuable to read and incorporated many of the author's suggestions even though I do not always approach things just as he does. I liked that the author considers respect for and honesty with children paramount, and all his advice is based on this perspective. He also helpfully reminds parents that children can succeed in breaking habits if we have confidence in them. While at first his advice to use your children's actual names rather than pet names seemed unnecessarily serious to me, I do agree that overuse of pet names can diminish a child's feelings of competence. The reason I found the book helpful is that it offers multiple suggestions for helping a child get rid of the pacifier/thumb/bottle habit, and then recognizes, with an open mind, that parents may choose to "let it be" and let children give up when they tire of the habit. In other words, book was not too doctrinaire.
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