Shannon Soper

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Recommending this with reservations. Pros: Helped me realize my son peeing on the floor and then pointing it out to me was actually big progress and something to praise him and thank him for telling me. Because previously he didn’t really pay attention to it. The book helped me identify and celebrate all the baby steps of progress and plan for each next small step. Cons: a bunch of nonsense about how our modern hurried lifestyle turns our kids into constipated kids with a fear of poop, a lot of fear-based stuff about the million things parents do wrong and horror stories of potty training gone wrong, and totally focuses on stay at home moms with no real plan for families with kids in daycare or school. And mentions fathers at the end in a very dismissive and patronizing way, implying that they never have a big role in potty training

This is a drama that is fun because it’s so over-the-top and suspenseful. None of the subtle dialogue, humor, and character development that Charles Dickens or Jane Austen offer. Some themes are so repetitive they made me laugh—Mr. Thornton looking scornfully upon everyone for long stretches of time, Mr Thornton and Margaret gazing at each other with ambiguous expressions for long periods of time, both of them arguing about the same thing over and over. I thought all the actors did an excellent job, just the directing and dialogue could’ve been more nuanced.