Your Six Year Old: Loving and Defiant Book

This book has some useful information and helpful tidbits that transcend time, such as the advice that one need not phase out the pre-bedtime protein snack, such as cheese, just yet. However, most of the advice and examples are very dated and oddly phrased, such as the admonition to separate Father and Six at the dinner table allowing Six to sit next to Mother in case of spills, restlessness, etc. It is a very short read and the bottom line is that all the silliness, emotional outburts, restlessnes, inability follow direction consistently and agreeably, etc. is absolutely normal and will be much more manageable going into age seven. I just wish someone would write a new set of these books based by year that acknowledges the facts of the modern world - such as that children go to all day kindergarden at five and that pawning them off on Grandma when frustrated probably won't work as she is likely to be employed.