Toddler traitor!
Is it just me or does everyone hate it when their values are questioned?
I raised my toddlers with a book called Toddler Taming by Dr Christopher Green. I loved that book. Basically, it reassured me that my children were normal (and not devil’s spawn….as I'd come to suspect). It promised it was normal for toddlers to misbehave and that there was something I could do about it. I don’t know how many times I went to that book and found the exact issue I was concerned about and a firm but fair solution.
Wel, wouldn’t you believe it, Christopher Green has re-canted.
After a near death experience, Dr Green has revised his philosophy and is telling parents not to tame their toddlers at all. He says children getting an appropriate amount of attention don’t misbehave, that if you value your toddler, they will be good.
All the time, Dr Green, seriously, all the time?
How Dr Green came to back flip is an interesting part of the story. A few years ago he had a major stroke, around about the same time his wife passed away. He says the combination of the two events meant he lost the will to live, sinking him into an almost fatal depression. Dr Green says he saved his own life, by re-writing Toddler Taming from scratch, partly to keep his mind active, and partly to regain the power of language.
I’m really interested in the revised version because I always found Toddler Taming to be a sensible (…not torturous or mean…) approach to explaining consequences to your kids (….I promise….) And I know I sound like a crazy person now, but the original Toddler Taming worked for me!
I raised my toddlers with a book called Toddler Taming by Dr Christopher Green. I loved that book. Basically, it reassured me that my children were normal (and not devil’s spawn….as I'd come to suspect). It promised it was normal for toddlers to misbehave and that there was something I could do about it. I don’t know how many times I went to that book and found the exact issue I was concerned about and a firm but fair solution.
Wel, wouldn’t you believe it, Christopher Green has re-canted.
After a near death experience, Dr Green has revised his philosophy and is telling parents not to tame their toddlers at all. He says children getting an appropriate amount of attention don’t misbehave, that if you value your toddler, they will be good.
All the time, Dr Green, seriously, all the time?
How Dr Green came to back flip is an interesting part of the story. A few years ago he had a major stroke, around about the same time his wife passed away. He says the combination of the two events meant he lost the will to live, sinking him into an almost fatal depression. Dr Green says he saved his own life, by re-writing Toddler Taming from scratch, partly to keep his mind active, and partly to regain the power of language.
I’m really interested in the revised version because I always found Toddler Taming to be a sensible (…not torturous or mean…) approach to explaining consequences to your kids (….I promise….) And I know I sound like a crazy person now, but the original Toddler Taming worked for me!
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