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Title: some useful advice but full of clichés and too long
Review: Pro:The book offers useful advice about how to calm your baby.Cons:It is very repetitive and contains a lot of filler pages. The whole thing could (and should) be summarized in about 20 concise pages rather than waste the precious hours of tired new parents with irrelevant case stories.Also, the advice in the book is wrapped in a pseudo-anthropological narrative that fuses dubious speculation about human evolution with highly racialized clichés about child-rearing in non-Western societies. In short, the book contributes to the romantic (and racist) myth that non-Western societies are better at dealing with babies because they are supposedly more in touch with "nature". The corollary of that argument is of course that non-Western societies are stereotyped as backward and primitive.
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