Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #510400 in Books
• Published on: 1983-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 352 pages

Customer Reviews

Best Book on Historian childcare i have ever read!
From start to finish, Dream babies gives an exciting look into the history of child rearing from potty training to disipline from the 1700s to the 1980s. I couldnt put this book down and have read it over 6 times in the last 4 years.
How things have changed!
Many things that was taken for proper upright upbringing of ones children shocked me to the core and made me think of what the NSPCC would think nowadays.
The authoress takes you through an amazing journey which you can 'see' in your minds eye.
The book includes photograghs of old fashioned perambulators, cots and nursing devices of old and is packed full from start to finish with advice of old from famous people as Spock, Locke, Truby King and Freud.
A must to read for anyone who is interested in childhood history.

Fascinating history of childcare advice through the ages
I'm delighted that a new and updated edition of Dream Babies is coming out. I have a well-thumbed copy of the 1984 edition, which I've often turned to to remind myself that fashions in childcare come and go, and that "experts" frequently get in the way of maternal instinct. One of my favourite books, and I'll definitely be reading the new version.

have confidence in yourself as childcare fashions change
I had a copy of this book when my first child was born in 1984. By showing how the fads and fashions of childcare developed and changed for each generation it gave me the confidence to trust my own judgment and intuition with my own babies instead of taking the latest shiny new childcare manual as a kind of bible...I would recommend it to any new parent...