I never put my patients on a diet. There are guiding principles which allow them to be in control without feeling deprived. Following this information, each person can work out what will be best for them. If, for example, dinner with friends requires eating something not ideal, they just return to their own program the next day. There is no guilt at a variation. Since this is under their own control, achieving the goal they've set is their victory.

As a Pediatrician, years of experience helped me to determine what would go into this book. It consists of information I found myself repeating to every mother during office visits in the first three years of the child's life. Women who have already raised their children say the same thing after reading it: "I wish I'd had this when I was raising my children". The favorite sections seem to be Sleep-How To Get It, Toilet Training or Learning Control and Avoiding Eating Problems. Explaining ...