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Busy Toddler's Guide to Actual Parenting
- From Their First "No" to Their First Day of School (and Everything in Between)
- By: Susie Allison
- Narrated by: Susie Allison
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Abridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 628
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 550
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Story5 out of 5 stars 545
You don’t need to feel alone in parenting. You don’t need to feel like you’re failing. And you definitely don’t need another parenting book filled with theoretical advice about theoretical children. You need actual parenting help from an actual parent. It’s time to feel confident in your parenting. In Busy Toddler’s Guide to Actual Parenting, Susie gives the achievable advice she’s known for around the world, from daily life and #beingtwoisfine to tantrums and tattling and teaching the ABCs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Common sense and very approachable
- By MZF on 11-29-20
- Busy Toddler's Guide to Actual Parenting
- From Their First "No" to Their First Day of School (and Everything in Between)
- By: Susie Allison
- Narrated by: Susie Allison
very basic, but very good and useful advice
Reviewed: 02-12-22
The tips and advice, although some very basic, are excellent and very useful.
I just don't give it 5 stars, because I don't like the fact that it makes you feel something like "you as a parent are doing it great, only you know your effort". Of course every parent want to hear that. But I think most parents (me included), don't do it great and for that reason most adults carry problems from childhood.
Overall a great book but I recommend you also read more critical books about your job as parent. If you only read this book, you will be very happy with what a great parent you are, and I think is better to be more self critical regarding to parenthood.
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The Most Productive People in History: 18 Extraordinarily Prolific Inventors, Artists, and Entrepreneurs, from Archimedes to Elon Musk
- By: Michael Rank
- Narrated by: Kevin Meyer
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 101
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Story4 out of 5 stars 81
They never knew how he did it. Few composers write more than one or two symphonies in their lifetimes. Beethoven spent a year on his shorter symphonies but more than six years on his 9th Symphony. The prodigy Mozart finished his last three symphonies (39, 40, and 41) in the span of a few weeks. His 25th Symphony took only two days.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extremely good. It can save you from burnout.
- By Peter on 02-14-21
Extremely good. It can save you from burnout.
Reviewed: 02-14-21
Great quality of content. Some tips from this book useful for my job, that allowed me to escape burnout and stay healthy after 3 new exploitative managers in my enterprise:
1) As managers value seeing you sending e-mails late at night, I go to gym, meet friends and read during job hours (at lunch time or other hours, they assume you are at meetings). I work the same 8 hours a day, but sending e-mails at 22:00 hrs in the night, gives the impression of a very busy worker and these managers don't give me new irrelevant tasks, as they assume me working 24/7.
2) as I concentrate on the 80/20 pareto, even when loaded with huge amount of work, I always manage to eat, sleep, exercise and share with my family, all well as I escape tasks that don't add much value and usually no one complains if a do them 1 or 2 weeks later. (some even month later after someone request the information).
3) I always wondered why some people working 16 hours per day have middle Incomes while some people training 8 hours a day have elite sports level or elite positions in business.
4) I wondered in the past, why people getting sick in my enterprise, obese and having family problems for lack of time, earn less than me...
All these answers you will find in this excellent book.
By the way... I wrote this comment while brisk walking in my desk treadmill... I listened this whole audio book while doing push ups, washing dishes, etc...
If you want to boost your efficiency, read this awesome book.
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