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Attention Guilty Mothers:
British pundit Oliver James has written a splashy new parenting book called “How Not to F*** Them Up”.
If you’re the kind of parent who keeps a “therapy jar” to help pay for the damage you’re sure you’re somehow causing to your child’s developing mind, this is the book for you. In addition to a book, he provides a helpful quiz so you can rate your own performance.
What was the first thing my partner and I did after finding out I was pregnant? Well, we hugged. And then immediately zipped over to Barnes and Noble, where we sat in a section of the store we didn’t know existed: “Parenting and Children.”
We stayed there for more than an hour, thumbing through books, looking at pictures and searching for information about how to be pregnant. That wasn’t our last trip to the bookstore in the name of getting all things birth, baby and kid right. Eventually, we added Dr. Google to the mix.
Sometimes the books were helpful, sometimes they were just a pain. Eventually, we each found the way we were most comfortable as parents and now we just Google the more advanced parenting topics like “lice” and “Rice Krispy Treats.” Continue reading »
British hospitals are now sending home a guide that promises to tell you “how to be a dad.” So how many men does it take to carry this thing out of the hospital?
Just one – the guide is the size of a credit card.
So what does that say, exactly? Feed it, clothe it, don’t drop it? Continue reading »
We’re in an era of what seems to be unprecedented information about parenting. Books, magazines, newspaper columns, and even websites like this one bubble over with advice and opinions about what you “should” be doing for your kids and more to the point, how they should be.
It’s enough to make us crazy. If you’re susceptible to the endless marketing barrage aimed at parents and the constant rush of advice books whose authors aren’t selling anything but themselves, you can really get into a lather. If you’re Continue reading »
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