Parents who read Parenting magazines know that the stories that appear in those magazines are almost all uplifting at their heart. It may start with a child having problems, acting out or doing something dangerous, but the kids learn their lesson, and everything afterwards goes back to the happy golden perfection that life is.
As if! Is life ever really happy, golden perfection? Not likely, even with millions of dollars in the bank and nannies. This book collects the real stories from the childhood trenches, when your kid is acting out and you are ready to pull out your hair- but you can't, because your guests will be arriving in five minutes for dinner.
It's the story of taking vacation with your relatives, knowing they are going to spend it all drinking like fishes, and doing it anyway because it is your wife's family. It's a letter from your Loudmouth Lesbian Best friend telling you what she'll do for you, and your new baby. It's a testimony from the gayest straight Dad in America. About having breast cancer.
These are stories about real life, the real life you rarely read about in parenting magazines or those uplifting 3 hanky cry books. The stories are funny, irreverent, and will make you smile, even if you don't have kids, or like me, only have four-footed ones that go "mew!" or "Ah-ruh!"
And because of that, you'll get to see many different sides of parenting. Not just the ones that make you feel it will all be okay, but the ones that make you see that you're not alone in feeling overwhelmed by it all, embarrassed by your relatives, or feeling like you've horribly scarred your own child for life.
I liked this book, even though I don't have kids. Because I don't have them, it's hard for me to say if parents with real, actual human children would enjoy it, but I think so. Of course, YMMV.
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