Laurie Boucke Book order (chronological)

Offering a humorous yet insightful examination of Dutch culture, this satire delves into various facets of everyday life, including coffee habits, parenting styles, train journeys, and even toilet etiquette. It's an essential read for those with ties to the Netherlands or anyone who appreciates clever wit. With its status as a perennial best-seller in Europe, it is gaining popularity in the United States and Canada, making it a delightful exploration of Dutch customs and mentality.

"A resource on infant toilet training including guidelines, medical and anthropological reports, testimonials, history, philosophy, cross-cultural research, and photos from around the world. This practice is also called elimination communication"--Provided by publisher.

Babys ohne Windeln? Das geht, sagt Laurie Boucke und verweist auf die vielen Völker der Erde, bei denen dies selbstverständlich ist. Mit der „TopfFit-Methode“ hat sie eine Möglichkeit entwickelt, dies auch in unserer Welt zu verwirklichen. Allerdings liegt das Ziel dabei nicht darin, sein Kind möglichst schnell sauber zu bekommen, sondern viel mehr in der erhöhten Bindung zwischen Eltern und Kind, in einer besseren Lebensqualität für das Baby sowie in gesundheitlichen und ökologischen Vorteilen. Von Geburt an sind sich Babys ihrer Ausscheidungen bewusst und versuchen, mit uns darüber zu kommunizieren. Laurie Boucke zeigt, wie man die Zeichen und Signale des Babys erkennen und entsprechend darauf antworten kann.

Nothing is more interesting than to see yourself through the eyes of an outsider. The UnDutchables is a very revealing treatise about us... This book in a very exact yet funny way discloses all the secrets about us that we really would have preferred to keep to ourselves. In other words, they hang out the dirty linen... The authors have clearly looked much farther than wooden shoes and tulips... Even the way we stir sugar in our coffee has not escaped their notice and not until you read this book from cover to cover do you understand how much our behavior, that we consider as completely normal ourselves, borders on insanity for a non-Netherlander. Everything in it is true, and only the humor with which it is written makes it at all palatable for us.