Why are all parenting books so long?

[OhHolyNightWaking]

I mean, I barely have time to wipe my arse or clean my teeth in any given day... so how the hell am I meant to find time to read a 300 page sleep book, or a rambling tome about Gentle Parenting?

Where's the bullet pointed list to explain how to make my 9 month old stop waking every sodding hour? Or the brief pamphlet to tell me what how to get my 3 year old to listen to anything I say?! Even the one potty training book I bought was so long it made me want to give up before we had even started.

My poor Kindle is bloated with these parenting books which are destined to remain abandoned, after I inevitably give up half way through the rambling introduction section offers no meaningful answers to my burning questions. My intentions are always good honest (or at least fuelled by a desperate longing for sleep and family harmony!) but my attention span lets me down every time!

Is it just me? I fear I am destined to be in the exhausted and frazzled "winging it" camp until the leave home!

Ah, so many typos. I blame a combination of sleep deprivation and pins and needles in my arm (which is currently trapped beneath a sleeping child who will invariably wake when I try to put them down). Sorry!

Because they're full of shit.

I'm an avid reader and always have been, but parenting books are one area I've never ventured further than the blurb.

Yanbu. I always wonder this.

Due to a non sleeping and challenging child I no longer read books. A snatched few minutes on MN is my limit. My memory is shot to pieces too, when I do read a book I go over the same sentences a few times.

No cry sleep solution has a paragraph per chapter to summarise! Amazing book got my frequent waker sleeping through within a week at 11 months old. Followed it with my second and she slept through from 2 weeks old.

Yanbu. The only one I have managed in the best part of a decade is The Sixty Minute Mother. Written by a guy but lots of interview anecdotes / advice.

Gah icantfind now you've got me wanting another...

Baby woke on transfer as predicted. I suppose I could read a bit of one right now, but I am beyond tired, so dicking about on Mumsnet FTW! \o/

I dimly remember having time to read for pleasure. wistful gaze into distance

At least I am currently winning the vote, even if I otherwise feel like a loser!

I read one cover to cover, I swear it could happily be a pamphlet.

Because parenting is fucking endless so the books have to be too..

Perhaps listen to audio books much more convenient. I listen when driving instead of the radio and means I'm using up what would have been redundant time anyway