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Joining in our week of looking closely at the Gary Ezzo / Babywise / Growing Families International teachings include a variety of people in the blogosphere (and twitter and facebook!)

I strongly encourage everyone to read the post at SortaCrunchy about How to Give Voice to Your Ezzo Concerns Online. It’s very well said, and I look forward to what promises to be a great series from Megan this week!

From the home of this year’s GFI conference, Michael Bates writes about Gary Ezzo Comes to Tulsa. He’s written before at Batesline blog about their Ezzo experiences and confesses, “It is hard to ditch the Ezzo mindset. You’re confronted with regrets over years wasted and damage done…”

On the flip side of that, the blog that aspires to be a Q&A resource for all things pro-Babywise has been inspired by our annual Ezzo Week blogathon to collect “It worked for me!” stories from those who are currently pleased with Babywise. You may be surprised that I’m linking to a pro-Babywise website. I think it is important for people researching the concerns about this issue have access to experiences and information from a wide variety of sources. I wasn’t surprised to read some of these stories and see my OWN story in them — I thought Babywise was the best thing since sliced bread when my oldest was still very young. It was easy for me to dismiss problems I was seeing, explain away concerns I had because they were “normal” among BW moms. While I do find the occasional long-term Ezzo parent, you’ll find that most who enthusiastically share their successes still have very young children. We’ll be talking more about the “It worked for me!” scenarios later in the week, but until then, along with the “success stories,” please take the time to read about when it most definitely has not worked at Voices of Experience.

We’ll be sharing more links throughout the coming week! Please let me know if you are blogging about Babywise / Ezzo parenting this week and I don’t see it right away.

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This post is part of the Ezzo Week 2010 series. As a reminder, we are looking closely at a set of ideas, or “philosophy” as Gary Ezzo terms it – but not being critical of parents who are raising their children with love and the resources which they have.