The Missing Pages of the Parent Handbook
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
They license people to drive, and require degrees for most professions, but require no formal training to become a parent. Parenting is one of those few occupations where one is constantly forced to learn “on the job.”
This book presents extraordinary wisdom from ordinary parents who have had to learn on the job. These stories and insights come from a diverse group of adults, representing a cross-section of American moms and dads.
From a mother of a teenage son, we learn how to correct years of enabling. From parents who have lost a son in a military accident, we learn how to go on. From a husband who discovers his wife has put their daughter’s jeans in the freezer, we learn to find humor in those crazy moments of parenting. In each case, these men and women come out wiser – offering us all lessons on this difficult, funny, and taxing enterprise of child rearing. Open this book…and you may just find a page that is missing from your parent handbook.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Brockett provides refreshingly easy-going, if relatively insubstantial, insights about the difficult art of child rearing. Writing essays about her own parenting difficulties, she came to believe that nearly all parents feel frustration at some point and solicited contributions from parents across the country. Her purpose is to offer a range of shared experiences, rather than pointers on baby burping or feeding. Among the topics addressed is parental dysfunction, as well as predicaments facing young children and teens. Brockett also offers an abundance of humorous stories and comes to the conclusion that "it really is all worth it." The identification of contributors by first names only reinforces the author's message that this work is by, and for, everyman and everywoman. Readers looking for shared experiences or flashes of insight may find some wisdom in Brockett's collection of essays; those seeking more profound guidance on filling out their own missing pages may need to look elsewhere.
