The pros and cons of circumcision. The difference between green and clear mucus. How to comfort a crying baby. How to talk to a toddler. The various shades of stool and what they portend for your baby and you.
Trouble is, there are so many to choose from, each differing in tone and politics and advice.
My local Borders carries roughly 2,100 titles about parenting, not including the pregnancy books. A nearby Super Crown stocks around 1,000 different parenting titles. All of us parents need at least one book to consult when our instincts don't tell us how to proceed. When your mother offers advice, you at least know where it's coming from. We've put together a synopsis of the six top-selling parenting books of all time, with a chart that summarizes their answers to key questions, enabling you to do a quick comparison of this highly subjective, dangerously politicized, too often humorless field of study.