Have the fourth one first: Practical parenting ideas that work for real families

Becoming a parent can be confusing and overwhelming. Just when you think you've mastered it, your baby moves on to another phase, and you're lost again. If you have another child, at least it feels like going back into familiar territory, but now you have to work out how to apply all the lessons you learnt first time, while simultaneously taking care of an older child. Wouldn't it be nice if you could borrow the experience, confidence and knowledge of a parent who's been there before, and use it right from the beginning of your child's life? Here are the lessons learnt by one parent over many years of mistakes, experiments and discoveries, not to mention cheerfully borrowing everyone else's best ideas. This book does not contain one magic answer that will work for everyone, because no book can possibly do that even if it promises to. Instead, it has lots of practical ideas that have worked for other families, offered with empathy, respect and encouragement, from an author who knows the daily reality of parenting. From pregnancy and babyhood, through the toddler years and into older childhood, this book covers food and fun, potty training and discipline, sleep and health, siblings and family life. Not all of it will work for you, but I promise you'll find something you've never read before that makes parenting just a little bit easier.