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|author=Ben Raskin
|title=Grow: A Family Guide to Growing Fruit and Veg
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I worried when I looked at this book: ''Grow'', it said, ''A family guide to growing fruit and veg''. Why did it worry me? Well, it's a mere 48 pages and the cover says that it includes ''Games, stickers and MORE!'' I have weighty tomes which don't completely cover what I need to know about growing fruit and veg, so wasn't this going to fall a little short? Well, it doesn't - not at all.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404511</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Simon McGrath
|summary=Child psychologist Oliver James can be relied on to fight his corner, whether it's about affluent society or toxic parents. Now he puts the first three years of life under the microscope and argues equally vehemently that parents need to identify their own needs accurately and build their children's care into a 'good enough' framework, in order for the whole family to flourish. He's a controversial figure whose interest in parenting goes back to his own childhood (yes, you've guessed it, his parents where psychoanalysts). He argues the case for modifying childcare decisions to accord with parenting styles while avoiding working mums' guilt trips: “'Why embracing your own parenting style is best for you and your child,' as the cover has it.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009192393X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Eleanor Birne
|title=When Will I Sleep Through the Night? An A - Z of Babyhood
|rating=4.5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=When it comes to parenting, I have discovered that a lot of people lie. They lie about sleep, about tantrums, about feeding and nappies and the effects of a screaming newborn on your marriage. There are books galore, and Mummy blogs, and tweeters all happily proclaiming how marvellous it all is, first of all being pregnant, then giving birth, and then raising the baby. It's all glowing skin and sunshine smiles and meeting friends for coffee. I quickly stopped reading anything baby-related when I was pregnant because I was sick as a dog for 5 months, I had an awful labour and that first year with my little girl was almost impossibly difficult and totally consumed with the horror of a non-sleeping baby. Now, four and a half years on from giving birth and (mostly) sleeping all night long I felt able to open up this latest baby book, mainly because the title roused such familiar feelings in me.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684862</amazonuk>
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