Letting Go: Giving Up Those Bottles, Blankies, Pacifiers and So on

by Michelle Kennedy

Many perfectly normal toddlers can't let go of security blankets, pacifiers, and other little objects that take on mysterious significance for them. This book offers an approach parents can use to help kids get past things they don't need any more. Author Michelle Kennedy asserts that the best way to help kids become independent of that smelly old blanket is to start early in giving them small doses of autonomy. Kids love the idea of freedom, and it expands to encompass all their habits. As long as the degree of freedom is appropriate to age, circumstance, and safety, both parents and kids will do just fine.

128 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2004

About the author

Michelle Kennedy is the author of numerous books on parenting, the memoir "Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless (With Kids) in America" published by Viking, the memoir "A Fine Mess: Living Simply With Children," and the novel, "Gandhi was a Libra."

Her articles and essays have been published in Salon.com, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Redbook, Family Circle, FamilyFun Magazine and many other publications. She has also read her work on National Public Radio.

Michelle is the mother of eight, grandmother of one, and in addition to being a writer of words, is also a lover of dogs, a gardener of weeds (and weed!), and a knitter of tangled things.

Please find her on Facebook or write to her at mushergrrl@gmail.com

Reviews

[Exina · Rating 3 out of 5]

Letting Go: 99 Tips to Bring You Back from the End of Your Rope provides parenting advices - most of them are evident, some of them are funny, and with some I personally don’t agree.

[Sham Issa · Rating 3 out of 5]

بسيط، ولكن ارشاداته ثاقبة ومفيدة.

[Sahar Alshehri · Rating 3 out of 5]

الاستغناء ،٩٩ نصيحه للتربيه السليمه ، كتاب جيد جدا يعطي نصايح سريعه للامهات ، انصح به ،