Customer Reviews (2)

Not only did the previous reviewer not buy this book - he's not a teacher.
he doesn't even have a school aged kid - based on the fact that he bought the book for toddlers (which, by the way, is fantastic!).
This is actually a great resource if you want to run great parent/teacher conferences without the parents getting defensive and having everyone walking away feeling great!

THE TRUTH ABOUT THIS BOOK
I was mislead into wasting money on Jim Fay's audio book on toddlers and I think Amazon and other
booksellers have a responsibility to be honest with consumers about this series;
The author as a promoted as a "doctor" and yet the series isabout heavy handed fundamentalist Christian parenting.

I used to live in Denver, and because the authors made several references to Colorado I began to wonder
if this were something put out by the "Focus on the Family" extremist cult based in Colorado Springs;
I was right. The titles and descriptions are deliberately misleading, but if you click on
the copyright link you'll see that this is where it came from.

When did these extreme Christian fundamentalist pass an amendment to the
"Shall not lie" commandment?
When did it become a "Christian Value" to disguise, mislead and lie about an agenda in order
to sell something that they know the buyer would have avoided had we been given honest information beforehand?

For me, this validates the fear that a lot of people in Colorado had expressed about this group. It also shows how
much the extreme Christian right has in common with the Muslim extremist in Afghanistan:
Both groups are willing to disregard the core dictates of the
religion they claim to follow if it serves their efforts to make money or to impose their
beliefs on the rest of the word.

I purchased the "Toddler Love and Logic" audio book from this series, and after the first 10 minutes of listening
to the these two men laughing at (and sarcastically imitatingthe voices of) mother's they've overheard making "
mistakes" in conversations with their children, I realized the real mistake had been in wasting my money.

Why would they use "Logic" in the title of a book that tells parents that they shouldn't
take the time to explain the reasoning behind the 'commands' they make to their children?
And what is logical about using a child's bedroom as a punishment during the day and expecting them to
view it as a comfortable safe place at bedtime?
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