Review: Wanting and Weaning
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 4, 2014
Author Sari Barel takes a unique stance on teaching children how to relinquish the pacifier and she involves parents in a most thoughtful and constructive way. Together with illustrator Neda Fuchedzhieva she has crated a fun book that gives parents insight on how to correct a certain behavioral problem - and have fun doing it.Truthy Ruthy cannot willingly give up her pacifier at bedtime or any time - it `makes me look happy'. Her mother decides to have her make up  a song of farewell to her pacifier, her grandfather tells her it is not tasty and so on. Truthy Ruthy is give three ways to free herself of the pacifier - have the pacifier prefer to go to another child, to hang in the pacifier tree, or keep using it until she was a grandmother! Three choices for ending for the pacifier problem - each with its merits and its flawsNot only is this little story entertaining but it also carries a very unique way of learning how to end an obsession. This book is a joint venture for children and parents, and as usual Sari Barel handles it very well indeed. Grady Harp, July 14