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Worthwhile Books (midwest.social)

submitted 1 month ago by dumples@midwest.social to c/parenting@lemmy.world

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My wife just had her first pregnancy doctor's appointment and I am feeling under prepared. I am looking for worthwhile and hopefully empirically based books about pregnancy and parenting. I normally have no problems doing my own research and scourging the library to find out what I need but there's so much it's overwhelming.

So what books have you all read that are worthwhile? What is worth looking at?

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[–] Hello_there@fedia.io 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Most parenting books seemed to be summed up as 'It depends'. There is a frustrating lack of empirically derived books. Best I can offer is talk now about parenting philosophy with spouse - e.g. how much crying is acceptable when 1 yo before you have to go comfort? When kid falls down do you swoop in or let the kid manage? Keep to that philosophy - kids hate flip-flopping on approaches

[–] dumples@midwest.social 1 points 6 days ago

Great advice. Thank you