Reviews and Professional Analyses of Babywise, Growing Kids God's Way,
and other Ezzo - authored material
Reviews, critiques, and professional analyses can be divided into two categories. Follow the links:
Medical Concerns
AAP
Media Alert | PDF version
American Academy of Pediatrics Statement on Parent Directed Feeding Schedules
Examining
the Evidence for Cue Feeding | PDF
version
by Jan Barger, RN, MS, IBCLC
and Lisa Marasco, MA, IBCLC
Conflicting Messages--A Review of Babywise 2001 | Printer-friendly version
by Kathy Thile
What to Make of Babywise -- (PDF file)
Childbirth Instructor Journal, Nov/Dec 1999, Patty Donohue-Carey, BS, LCCE, CLE
BabyWise?
BeWary! Who is Gary Ezzo and why... (PDF file)
Tulsa Kids,
part one, by Cindy Webb, B.S.
BabyWise?
BeWary! What Ezzo Doesn't Know About Child Development... (PDF file)
Tulsa Kids,
part two, by Cindy Webb, B.S.
Scheduled
Feedings
Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC, explains how babies' feedings fit into real life
Breast
Babies and Schedules
Becky Flores,
BSed, IBCLC
Parenting Experiment
by Mary Ann Griffin, RN, CNM and Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC
Thirty-five
unsubstantiated and/or false medical statements in Babywise
'95
by Matthew Aney, M.D.
Religious
Parenting Programs: Their Relationship to Child Abuse
Prevention
The Child Abuse Prevention
Council of Orange County
Parenting Program Committee
Report, Preparation for Parenting portion, May 14 1996
Problems
with the 45-minute intruder portions of the 2001 Babywise
by Laurie Moody, lactation
counselor and former GFI contact mom
Sheila Kitzinger's Letter from Europe: Boot Camps for Babies
BIRTH: Issues in Perinatal Care, March 2006
Whats the Fuss over Babywise and Preparation for Parenting?
by Tyler Horner, Ph. D.
Analysis
of GFI's information on co-sleeping and SIDS
from 1997, an analysis
of a then-current GFI article may still be useful
Babywise--Not
So Wise
by Moire Porter, article first appeared in The Early Childhood Educator, Winter 2001
Who
is Gary Ezzo? And Why Are People Talking About his Book,
"On Becoming Babywise"?
special report from BabyCenter.com,
approved by their medical
advisory board
Theological Concerns:
More than a Parenting Ministry
by Kathleen Terner and Elliot Miller, Christian Research Journal
The Ethics of Ezzo
by Tony Payne, Matthias Media (despite the title, the article is about how Ezzo uses the Bible in his presentation.)
An Evaluation of Ezzo Parenting Programs
by Dr. Kent McClain
On Becoming Childwise: A Critique
by Laurie Moody
Growing Kids the Ezzo Way
by Dr. Philip Ryken, 10th Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia
Growing Kids God's Way -- Not Ezzo's
Clarifications
On the Cultic Mindset, Ezzoism, and Sleeping Through the Night
by Dr. Bob Bixby, Morningstar Baptist Church
A Critique of Growing Kids God's Way
Biblical Discernment Ministries
Religious
Parenting Programs: Their Relationship to Child Abuse
Prevention
The Child Abuse Prevention
Council of Orange County
Parenting Program Committee
Report, theological section May 14 1996
Preparation for Parenting Class
Steve Rein's letter to his church after attending this class
Mothering
in the Shadow of the Cross
by Rebecca Prewett
Scheduling,
Routine, Flexibility, and Responsiveness: Muddling through
the Maze of Conflicting Baby Advice
by Rebecca Prewett
Woman
to Woman
by Helen Aardsma
Whose
Way, After All?
by Barbara Curtis
Unto the
Least of These
booklet by Rebecca Lewis
Preparation
for Behavioral Pediatrics
by Rebecca Prewett
Some
Concerns about the Ezzo Method
by Rebecca Prewett
In
Response
by Rebecca Prewett (responds
to Ezzo's rebuttal of above article--unfortunately no
longer available on-line)
Strict
Parenting Schedules
from the Couple to Couple league
Neo-Evangelizing the Catholic Parent with an Alien Gospel
by Dr. Thomas and Jacintha Mezzetti
(Protestant parents may find much of value in this critique as well.)
