I just feel that instead of reading the reviews (which sometimes is a good way of gauging something but not necessarily with books) people should check it up for themselves. I think that most of the reviews on Amazon are from people who heard about the child abuse cases in which three children died as a result of parents misguidedly taking the book to an extreme. I do not believe that any book that advocates ‘beating children into submission’ would even get published in a country such as America. I would suggest that if we all read it ourselves, we would see that.
I may point out a recent, horrific event (unconnected to this book) in which people are now downloading the NYP app just to give it a 1-star review. Most of the people who are doing this may not even have read the article, but following public opinion. Please don’t abuse me for this since I know the two cases are not in any way related, I am merely trying to point out that in order to discredit something, people will jump on the bandwagon without actually having checked up the facts themselves.