Your Three-Year-Old: Friend or Enemy

As with the other books in this series, most of this book is a bang-on take of what your N year old is going through - how they're behaving, why they're behaving like that, and what you can do about it. The advice in Your Two-Year Old, it was mostly: TV and babysitters. NO PROBLEMO. I am over the screentime moral panic, sign me up.

As with the previous book, it's super dated and so - amidst all the gems of timeless wisdom - there are, err, real hilarious clunkers. My favorite being the advice that, okay, some kids might need a good spanking - nothing excessive - but especially if they're mesomorphic boys. Ectomorphic? Something about body shape. I was just like, okay, this is Yale, but this is the 1970s, moving right along.

The final outcome of this book - just for me and my parenting - was the best one: I felt more compassionate and more patient. Onto the next years!