title: Trends in popular parenting books and the need for parental critical thinking.
abstract: Parents continually struggle to find better ways to make decisions regarding their children, and many use popular parenting books. The purpose of this article is to discuss the critical thinking skills needed by parents and practitioners who work with parents to make informed parenting decisions influenced by popular media. It also addresses strategies on sleeping, cosleeping, feeding and toilet training in popular parenting books, and the corresponding empirical evidence found in the scientific literature.
authors.affiliation: Graduate College of Social Work, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Kelli
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Connell-Carrick
mesh_terms: D002668:Child Rearing / Q000523:psychology*; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008091:Literature; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology* / Q000639:trends