Dear Dr. Ferber

[wendykh]

Stop fucking complaining people don't read your book and just let their babies cry and then blame you. You know why no one reads your stupid book? It's 440 pages long. Without the index. You're marketing it toward exhausted burnt out parents and you write 440 freaking pages. Pamphlet next time.

Love,
tired mommy who is sick of her husband suggesting they read your lovely book. I look at it and get nauseated by its thickness. I hardly have the attention span to read a newspaper article. Your book? Are you kidding me?

Comments

[alohamelly.livejournal.com]

I wonder if that book has a cheat sheet of some sort in the middle of it like other books do. Off the top of my head, Happiest baby on the Block has one in the middle of it.

[stirling-b.livejournal.com]

Dr. Benjamin Spock's great book is still the standard reference. When you are shocked and appalled when you change a baby's nappies, you just have to look up "beets". Joan and I lived by it as parents of a baby.