Reviews for Intervention In Child Language Disorders

The average rating for Intervention In Child Language Disorders based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-11-03 00:00:00 Mart Snow I had high hopes, but it fell short. The things she had to say didn't resonate well with me and I got a very conservative undertone. She was very essentialist, meaning "Boys are essentially X. Mothers are essentially Y. Fathers are essentially Z." After 300 pgs, I had the prototypical image of ONE boy in my head; there wasn't much room for range or individual differences. It's ironic, actually, because I had been searching for books that would lead me a bit into the biological development of boys so I could better understand my own. But though she's an MD, I didn't get the sense that any of her commentary was developmentally-driven, rather, reflecting of gender-typing in mainstream society. I didn't fit the mold of the "Mother" she describes in the book, and Mike certainly is not a father like she describes. It was all very Masculine/Feminine oriented but not in a way that geled with my instincts. At one point she describes a mother of twins who came to her for a wellness check and was exhausted from exclusively breastfeeding, and she describes her as "crazy" because she was sacrificing herself for a societal pressure to breastfeed when obviously she should wean them, put them on formula, and let others bottle the boys during the night. I wouldn't see her as a pediatrician, obviously, so I guess her book advice didn't speak much to me, either. The gist is that boys want and need violent play, but the media is disparaging them. Turn them loose in the woods to play cowboys and indians but don't let them play Mortal Kombat. She's very into the role of traditional religion for structure in boys' lives (not open-minded spirituality, which leaves them "lost" because it doesn't offer answers) and also the need for boys to have incredible relationships with fathers.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-06-04 00:00:00 Ricky Richard I feel like I have read parenting book after parenting book after parenting book this year, and usually end up 2/3 from the end, slogging away and hating myself, the author, and anyone else who crosses my path. Most of them - the Christian parenting ones included - tend to make me feel woefully inadequate, and introduce a spate of "do this" charges that I must needs implement immediately (!) if I am to have strong, godly, intelligent boys. Not so here. For the first time ever, I came out of a parenting book feeling as if I understood my boys better. Immediately, I felt as if I could see them as the brilliant people God created, and love and enjoy them for themselves, rather than exhaust myself trying to sculpt them into some model Christianese citizen. Dr. Meeker applies her many, many years of pediatric experience (as well as parenting experience!) to the problems today's boys face, and gives solutions that aren't surprising: turn off the TV. Send them outside. Spend time with them. Spend MORE time with them. Let them scrape their knees. Let them have adventures. Let them explore and discover the nature of God. These things sound intuitive, so maybe you're wondering why I had to read a book to make them obvious. The short answer is, because I'm not a boy. I never was a boy, and never will be. I think like a girl, and so I just don't get some of the stuff they do: the rampant destruction, the constant noise, the fighting, the wrestling, the contests, the desperate need to be dirty/wet/muddy (seriously). The real revelations that I found here were in the nuances: that why my son insists on remaking 3D paper airplanes every.single.day isn't because he can't be content (Christianese 101), but because he wants to prove to himself that he can build a better plane tomorrow, that he can grow and improve, that he can master the art of building a paper airplane. Being outdoors is special because a boy needs to feel strong, and because he needs to exert his strength, and nature doesn't have a reset button. Outdoors, he can test his strength and know how it really measures up - how HE really measures up. I've read books about knowing the minds of boys/men that sounded like they were directed toward healing wounded men. This book is about protecting our boys from being wounded in the first place, and growing them into the strong men God made them to be, and they know they can be.