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Yeah, I had the same reaction. The Armin Brott books are quite reasonable. Respectful to new moms, broad enough to cover a range of parental experiences. I w

• kleiba 9y ago
  I'm a relatively new father too, and the author already lost me much earlier than that part. "Lost me", not as in "I couldn't follow anymore", but as in "this hasn't been my experience at all". My partner bought / were given a couple of books, maybe three or four. Not all of them were read. The ones we did read, we took with a grain of salt, and sometimes humor. More importantly: almost nothing written in any of these books was relevant to our parenting so far, other than very basic, mostly biological information about the expected development stages. Beyond that, nothing really was required in our case, and the books all made pretty clear that all babies are different and that your baby's development will likely differ in one way or the other from what they tell us. So, I don't really get what triggered the author to write this. Or, put differently, it's interesting to read this perspective, but frankly, it differs very much from my own experience.
  • grkvlt 9y ago
    You seem to be agreeing pretty much 100% with the views presented by the author in the article. Can you explain more about what you feel is different about your experience?