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Heidi Scrimgeour

Opinion: Gina Ford’s controversial parenting book, like all good 90s trends, is making a comeback - here’s why I loved it

Baby girl laughing.

As Gina Ford, author of a controversial 90s parenting book prepares to launch an app 25 years later, our writer recalls how divisive the book was among mums - and outlines why she was a fan.

Gina Ford is back, and she's making headlines all over again. I always knew this moment in my motherhood journey would one day come. As 90s nostalgia shows no sign of falling out of fashion, with everything from the best toys of the 90s to 90s-inspired baby names making a comeback, I've often wondered how long it would be before the biggest and most controversial parenting book of the 90s and Noughties would make a re-appearance. And now, it seems that moment has arrived. 

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