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W Givens

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Light on the insight. Heavy on the diet culture.

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2 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
2 out of 5 stars
Historia
2 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 07-02-23

I found the Four Tendencies insightful but overall the book is a dud. It’s one long journal entry of her own anecdotal experience with habit formation with a few stats sprinkled in. It’s also HEAVY on the diet culture, talking often about the need for restriction, weight loss, and other diety things.

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A classic but mediocre delivery.

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3 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
2 out of 5 stars
Historia
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 06-13-23

I skipped this book in high school so decided to circle back around. I really enjoyed the story but the performance was mediocre.

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Mediocre at best…

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2 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
3 out of 5 stars
Historia
2 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 06-11-23

I’m not really sure what I expected but I don’t feel like I got what I wanted out of this book. I have three boys (11, 8, and 3) so I decided to listen to this book in hopes of learning more about what to expect in approaching seasons and thought maybe it could be a resource I could encourage my boys to listen to. I feel like there are better resources out there though. It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie H. Harris and Michael Emberley has been a great resource for my oldest on sexual health for example.

The good: The importance of being aware of what media we consume and the relationships we keep will influence what we consider normal and acceptable as well as the importance of consent. I also liked her straight forwardness on the problems with drug/alcohol use.

The mediocre: she spends very little time on the actual development of boys on physical or hormonal level and instead the book is really more of a kind of self help book for boys.

The bad: her chapter on nutrition is steeped in diet culture. Bleh. She spends a lot of time reinforcing gender stereotypes claiming it’s all because of genes without talking a lot about the culture in which we operate in. She also only talks about relationships in a heteronormative way.

All in all, I didn’t think the good was worth the mediocre or bad and I won’t be sharing with my boys.

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Seriously life changing…

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 01-06-23

My husband and I found YNAB (the software) many years ago and almost overnight it became a total game changer in how we “do” money. I held off reading the book until a couple years ago and then decided to listen to it again this year as a refresher. The simple straightforward easy to apply wisdom found in this book is seriously life changing. I wish this book was a part of high school reading requirements or was given to every graduate.

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I wanted to love this book… but I didn’t.

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3 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
4 out of 5 stars
Historia
3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 02-19-22

I’ve been frustrated with the disconnect between gentle parenting and the current Christian culture. When I stumbled across this book I was so excited because I thought I found it, the missing link. The first few chapters felt strong, however, it quickly fell apart. It became a lot of “have faith” and “just stop yelling” type of advice. The book gives very few actual coping mechanisms one can use in the day to day.

I would recommend skipping this one and spend your precious time and energy pursing science based parenting advice. Siegel’s books would be a much better place to start.

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