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Pyjamas don't matter

<en>Pyjamas don't matter</en>

Parents often turn to parenting advice books when their own knowledge or intuition seem inadequate. Unlike earlier, prescriptive child-care guides, Trish Gribben's 1979 book Pyjamas don't matter (or: what your baby really needs), with the aid of illustrations by Dick Frizzell, took a light-hearted look at the important business of child-rearing. It acknowleged that parenting is a complicated and sometimes difficult experience.

Courtesy of Trish Gribben, Dick Frizzell and Pearson

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Lesley Patterson, Parenting – Parenting advice and organisations, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/26349/pyjamas-dont-matter (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Lesley Patterson, published 22 March 2011.

Comments

Rozeta Walkerden - New Zealand
09 October 2012
I was lucky enough to have this book when I had my children in the 1980's. It's a beautiful, simple book that makes you feel sane and reminds you that you are not alone and that baby is worth every bit of the tiredness and lack of time you encounter. I have been gifting this book to new Mums ever since and have always had great feedback. When I last tried to purchase this book I was told it is no longer in print, does anyone know where I can purchase it. Even a second hand copy would be good.