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megatsunami's review against another edition
3.0
Useful ways to identify your child's dominant sense (auditory, visual...) and how you can use this understanding to connect with them better. I didn't read the whole book, just the introduction and the relevant sections. As a parent, I found it thought-provoking and worth reading.
A few criticisms:
- Like most people with an interesting theory, she over-applies it. Every problem is because you have a different dominant sense than your child.
- The section on how to identify your dominant sense (for adults) is not useful. It's worded like a Cosmo quiz.
- Sometimes her generalizations didn't make sense or seemed too sweeping. Like: why are tactile children necessarily rough-and-tumble? A tactile child could be low-energy or high-energy.
- Her fourth category - "taste/smell" - was really interesting to me. After reading Elaine Aron's "The Highly Sensitive Person," Dunstan's "taste/smell" kids sound like an exact category match to Aron's "highly sensitive" people. But Dunstan seems a little naive about this category to me. Like, "Oh, taste/smell people will be GREAT parents because they are just so happy about meeting other people's needs." Um, what about "Taste/smell people might find parenting difficult because their highly sensitive systems will be overloaded by demanding babies"????
A few criticisms:
- Like most people with an interesting theory, she over-applies it. Every problem is because you have a different dominant sense than your child.
- The section on how to identify your dominant sense (for adults) is not useful. It's worded like a Cosmo quiz.
- Sometimes her generalizations didn't make sense or seemed too sweeping. Like: why are tactile children necessarily rough-and-tumble? A tactile child could be low-energy or high-energy.
- Her fourth category - "taste/smell" - was really interesting to me. After reading Elaine Aron's "The Highly Sensitive Person," Dunstan's "taste/smell" kids sound like an exact category match to Aron's "highly sensitive" people. But Dunstan seems a little naive about this category to me. Like, "Oh, taste/smell people will be GREAT parents because they are just so happy about meeting other people's needs." Um, what about "Taste/smell people might find parenting difficult because their highly sensitive systems will be overloaded by demanding babies"????
simplyparticular's review against another edition
4.0
Really interesting insights into how children process information. Picked i up at the library and am considering purchasing it for a reread when #2 gets bigger.
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