The Happiest Baby on the Block and The Happiest Toddler on the Block 2-Book Bundle

by Harvey Karp

Attention parents and grandparents, nurses and If the child in your life is under five, this convenient eBook bundle is for you. From respected pediatrician and child development expert Dr. Harvey Karp, national bestsellers The Happiest Baby on the Block and The Happiest Toddler on the Block will help you calm a crying baby, survive the “Terrible Twos,” and much more, resulting in more loving time for you and your child. THE HAPPIEST BABY ON THE BLOCK The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer “The best way I’ve ever seen to help crying babies.”—Steven P. Shelov, M.D., editor in chief, American Academy of Pediatrics’ Caring for Your Baby and Young Child With Dr. Karp’s sensible advice, you will be able to soothe even the fussiest infants and increase their sleep. His highly successful method is based on four revolutionary The Fourth Trimester (re-creating the womblike atmosphere your newborn still yearns for), The Calming Reflex (an “off switch” all babies are born with), The 5 S’s (five easy methods to turn on the calming reflex), and The Cuddle Cure (combining the 5 S’s to calm even colicky babies). THE HAPPIEST TODDLER ON THE BLOCK How to Eliminate Tantrums and Raise a Patient, Respectful, and Cooperative One- to Four-Year-Old “An informative and engaging romp about toddlers. Roll over, Dr. Spock.”—The New York Times Dr. Karp provides fast solutions for molding toddler behavior by combining his trademark tools of Toddler-ese and the Fast-Food Rule with a highly effective new green light/yellow light/red light method. As you learn how to boost your child’s good (green light) behavior, curb his annoying (yellow light) behavior, and immediately stop his unacceptable (red light) behavior, you will be able to alleviate stormy outbursts with amazing success—and better yet, prevent these tantrums before they begin.

Genres: Parenting, Nonfiction, Family, Childrens

488 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

Dr. Harvey Karp is a nationally renowned pediatrician and child development specialist. He is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the UCLA School of Medicine. Over the past 30 years, he has taught thousands of parents, from working moms to superstars like Madonna, Michelle Pfeiffer and Pierce Brosnan his secrets for making children happy.

Dr. Karp has committed his full-time efforts to writing, lecturing and education. He now travels extensively across America and around the world lecturing the medical community and the public about how to use his innovative discoveries to help parents successfully meet the needs of their young children.

Reviews

[Dara · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good information, but overly repetitive.

[Maree]

I'm not sure how many of these methods are outdated (for example, there's a new study out talking about how ineffective time outs are), but Karp has a ton of child experience with upset kids and these are methods that have worked for him over the ages. I'm not sure that I like some of his suggestions, but they are resources you can potentially use when you feel at wits' end.

Like with pretty much all child rearing books, it emphasizes the importance of keeping your own cool when your child is losing theirs (you are an adult, after all) and the negativity of spanking. There's no chapter on modern tech because, hey, it's an older book. But you can bet Karp would be on the same page of how much better it is to give your kid attention and letting them play rather than giving them an ipad and ignoring them.

[K · Rating 1 out of 5]

If you want to learn nothing about toddlers (or almost nothing) and deal with a poorly thought out anthropological analogy that should have stopped on the first page, then this book is for you. You get to be spoon fed misinformation and grossly exaggerated and simplified anthropological data on hominids. If he wanted to write a book on hominid evolution, then he needs to do his research first. If he wants to write a book on toddlers, then he should offer something other than analogies. Write a freaking book on toddlers with real and helpful advice!

Blech. Just confirms for me some doctors are idiots and should stay away from print.

[Gloria Chavira · Rating 5 out of 5]

This should be required reading for expecting parents. In the book Dr. Karp talks about the importance of the 5's- swaddling, side stomach position, swinging, shushing, sucking. Great book with great tips on calming a fussy baby.

[MC]

I've never heard a bad thing about Happiest Baby on the Block...

[Angie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dr Harvey Karp rocks! Both his books helped us right from the first day our baby was born. Highly recommend it to anyone expecting a child. Read it before the baby arrives!

[Janet · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book saved my sanity! It has such good advice! I buy it for every baby shower in invited to. I cannot recommend this book enough! Thank God for the author.

[Tom · Rating 4 out of 5]

Seems to be great advice that is showing immediate results with my 2-year old.

[Amanda · Rating 4 out of 5]

My library only had the double edition available for loan on kindle. I only read the first book about babies and didn’t read the second book about toddlers. But I think in the future that I will read his book about toddlers. Dr. Karp does a great job explaining the 5-S and cuddle cure. Not only how to accomplish them but also why they work. I appreciated his leaning on other cultures and world practices for knowledge of baby care. It’s comforting to know that as a new parent you can’t spoil a baby and that babies can not become addicted to comfort techniques. His last chapters about the 4-5 month really are beneficial! His teaching is heavily indoctrinated with evolution. Also, I really enjoyed his breaking down of what colic is and what it is not, as well as it’s history in the medical field. I appreciated his advice about pacifiers and bottles, so far he has guidelines where most other resources are either black or white about using or not using them while breastfeeding. The book did seem repetitive at some points, I’m sure you could find a YouTube video summarizing his points that teaches you how to accomplish them as well if you don’t want to read it in entirety. In fact, I’m sure I’ll find one for Ben to watch.

[jiji]

This was a DNF for me. I read about 20 pages, then realized, once again, that I rarely like parenting books. This is not because I am a natural when it comes to parenting, but because I hate commitment, and I don't want to adhere (or commit myself) to any particular philosophy or theory of parenting.
Just the thought trying to get myself to follow certain "guidelines" (rules) makes me feel trapped. A little simplistic and extreme, but that's just the way I am, I guess. I mean, if squirrels can parent their tiny, blind lil kits without reading the happiest squirrel on the block, then I too can cobble together enough parental common sense to be a good-enough parent. Plus, I feel like it could just send me down a rabbit hole where I start reading more and more books about parenting to make sure I'm definitely, 100% doing things as perfectly as possible, and that's not a rabbit hole I want to go down. Simplicity Parenting remains the only parenting book in my archive.

[Bùi Hà · Rating 3 out of 5]

My baby hasn’t been born yet so i’m not sure if his method works. I guess it should work as I see many parents swear by it. However, his book is just too long and repetitive. It’s just a 5 step methods and shouldn’t take the whole book to cover these steps. The way he explains his method is not convincing either. Please stop using ancient people and horses as examples for babies. It’s just nonsense.

If you really want to learn his method, (i guess it does work), just go to youtube and google a shorter summary of the book. In 10 minutes, you will get everything you need to know instead of wasting hours reading the book (and wondering what a horse has anything to do with your baby)

[Alper Çuğun · Rating 4 out of 5]

Let me just consider this book finished since I'm not going to let it wait here until our kids become toddlers.

A clear and concise book focused on the most common problems that parents of newly born babies are faced with. This is not so much of a thorough guide to parenthood as it is a treatment of what causes babies to cry and what approaches have proven to fixing that.

Just that part and the focus have been useful though it is missing just about everything else.

[Ben Nguyen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Digestible book with plenty of useful tips for future parents! Although it is pretty different from my experience as a child, I believe the advice provided will be pivotal in raising my future children. I really liked the fact he repeated his advice to help me remember since I'm the type to forget things quickly. Also the structure of the text helps to keep things fresh and gives it cohesion. Anyways, I'll probably re-visit this book when I'm older. Looking forward to it :)

[Helen Mary · Rating 4 out of 5]

The first part about the fourth trimester of a newborn literally saved us during our son's third month. We ended up having 5-6 hour stretches of sleep at night at a time when babies are notoriously known for the colic weeks. This is all thanks to Dr. Karp's Cuddle Cure method. My baby is still too young so I cannot really tell if the toddler approach on the second book is effective. But it's fairly useful preparatory reading for first time parents like us.

[Doroti · Rating 3 out of 5]

Още една ‘библия’ за отглеждане на деца, която не успя да ми помогне. Чела съм частта за бебетата. С първото бебе не ми помогна, защото я четох със закъснение. С второто бебе не ми помогна, въпреки че вече я бях чела и си я припомних на време. С тодлъра зачетох, но не дочетох. Махам я от списъка, че само ми боде очите.

[Victoria · Rating 3 out of 5]

A lot of self help books are pretty full of themselves and this gets sorted into that category. There's a parenting book for every personality and this just didn't fit me or my spouse. I found the tips to be kind of hard to remember easily enough to actually enact them and I don't really agree with viewing toddlers as cavemen.

[Noah Sandlin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dr. Karp provides a useful set of steps and foundational tools for soothing a baby. So far, his 5 S's have been most useful for holding over till the next feed and breaking a downward crying cycle. I skipped the historical "why" section due to wanting the most effective information is as quick as possible - which he delivered on. Dr. Karp, the Sandlins thank you!

[Jocelin · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wish I read this book in the early weeks; my 4 month old has phased out of most of this advice. I think this book offers solid suggestions, but is too long. I skimmed through parts in order to get to the real info.

[Maha Ibrahim · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best books for every parent to learn how to deal with their toddlers. Simple and clear ideas. Many of the ideas are repeated but it didn’t bother me because I felt I need this repetition in order to ensure that I’ve learnt the idea not just read it.

[Sarah Boardman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Simple and effective

I have been using the techniques of this book with my 3 month old, I have yet to practice the toddler stuff. So far it has worked and I am hoping that continues. I would recommend this to any parent. Simple advice that is easy to understand and is effective.

[Cameron Sullivan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Happiest Baby should be required reading for all new parents. The practical advice on how to soothe my child was expertly packaged with explanations of the science of how babies work, stories from other parents, and historical context. This book helped save my sanity.

[Brittany · Rating 3 out of 5]

Helpful information. Will probably refer to if baby is fussy.

[Yiting · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read the second half of this book about toddlers. It is helpful and practical.

[Elli Williams · Rating 5 out of 5]

It works well for us

[Hằng Trần · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Liz · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Happiest Baby on the Block was VERY helpful, but the toddler part just didn’t really work for us.

[Ashley Phillips · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good information but the delivery leaves something to be desired. Overly repetative and annoying...however the concepts are solid and defiantly will have a place in our discipline routine.

[Katherine · Rating 4 out of 5]

I should re-review this after we have **hopefully** successfully survived year two. However, his tips and practical strategies make me more confident for the world of toddlerhood ahead!

[Sara Crocoll Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

Can't wait to put some of this into practice!

[Samantha · Rating 3 out of 5]

There wasn't anything revolutionary in herr but it was nice to reveive confirmation that you can't spoil a newborn.