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Transition Times
It's Time to Give Up Your Pacifier [ITS TIME TO GIVE UP YOUR PACIF]
In this book, children learn that giving up their pacifier creates opportunities for doing fun things like talking, playing, and eating and drinking. This book includes helpful advice and tips for parents to deal with this tough transition. Growing up is hard, but when children have to give up the things they love most--like their pacifiers--a perfectly good day can turn into a catastrophe! Transition Times is a concept of internationally known child psychologist and parenting expert Lawrence E. Shapiro, who has written a series of books to help children through their trying transition times, giving up their pacifier, sleeping in their own bed, using words to communicate, and sitting still in their own chair.For most of today's parents, raising young children is the central part of their lives. Bonding and attachment is rightfully a primary concern, but many parents ignore the fact that limit-setting and age-appropriate expectations are also an important part of raising happy and healthy children. Where previous generations might have simply said "no," today's parents are looking for less confrontational ways to guide their young children through the trials and travails of growing up.Transition Times is designed to help parents through the difficult times when they have to deny their children some of the most primitive pleasures of childhood. Virtually every child will have difficulty with at least one transition time, and this series is intended to provide a gentle way to help children and their families through these periods.Each picture book contains sympathetic illustrated explanations of why it is important to give up the habits of babyhood and become a big boy or girl. Each book also includes advice for parents on how they can best help their children through these poignant and sometimes harrowing times.All four books in the series will be published simultaneously with illustrations by Hideko Takahashi.Each book includes a colorfully illustrated story for kids and professional advice for parents on what they should do, and not do, to help their children with a difficult transition.
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First published November 1, 2008
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November 12, 2013
Lawrence E. Shapiro, It's Time to Give Up Your Pacifier (Instant Help Books, 2008)
If you've been reading my reviews for any length of time, you know how I feel about message media. (If you haven't, the very short answer is that if you're an aspiring writer, I will simply tell you “that way lies madness”. There are maybe two dozen people in the world who do message fiction right, and you ain't one of them.) I knew when I started reading books for the pre-lit set again, even before my son (who will be two next month) was born, that I was going to run up against that sort of thing eventually. And for the most part, I'm willing to cut pre-lit books a little more slack in that regard, but not much; there's a fine line between didacticism and talking down to one's audience. Hell, that line's fine enough that I've heard more than one pundit use “didactic” as a synonym for talking down. But there's talking down and then there's It's Time to Give Up Your Pacifier. Which isn't exactly the same thing; it's a weird cross-breed of didacticism and pop psychology that I don't actually have a word for. The language Shapiro uses in addressing the problem is that odd blend that feels and sounds almost, but not quite, straightforward, but when you look a little closer, you're never quite sure exactly what the guy is saying (unless, presumably, you're another psychologist). On one hand, it addresses a real problem in a way different than any other book we've picked up on the subject. On the other hand, I feel like a fraud reading it to the Bean, and he makes a face at some of the language. You know how they sometimes say (and not nearly often enough) that the one audience you can't bullshit is kids? Here's hard evidence. **
If you've been reading my reviews for any length of time, you know how I feel about message media. (If you haven't, the very short answer is that if you're an aspiring writer, I will simply tell you “that way lies madness”. There are maybe two dozen people in the world who do message fiction right, and you ain't one of them.) I knew when I started reading books for the pre-lit set again, even before my son (who will be two next month) was born, that I was going to run up against that sort of thing eventually. And for the most part, I'm willing to cut pre-lit books a little more slack in that regard, but not much; there's a fine line between didacticism and talking down to one's audience. Hell, that line's fine enough that I've heard more than one pundit use “didactic” as a synonym for talking down. But there's talking down and then there's It's Time to Give Up Your Pacifier. Which isn't exactly the same thing; it's a weird cross-breed of didacticism and pop psychology that I don't actually have a word for. The language Shapiro uses in addressing the problem is that odd blend that feels and sounds almost, but not quite, straightforward, but when you look a little closer, you're never quite sure exactly what the guy is saying (unless, presumably, you're another psychologist). On one hand, it addresses a real problem in a way different than any other book we've picked up on the subject. On the other hand, I feel like a fraud reading it to the Bean, and he makes a face at some of the language. You know how they sometimes say (and not nearly often enough) that the one audience you can't bullshit is kids? Here's hard evidence. **
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