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Title: Dirt Is Good For You: True Tales of Surviving Parenthood
Editors: Babble.com
Genre: Memoir/essays on parenthood
Thingummies: 3.5
Synopsis: A series of columns from Babble.com in which parents confess the "terrible" things they've done to their children, whether walking around the house naked or loathing their kid's best friend, and discover that their child somehow survives.
Thingummies: These columns are strangely reassuring. They tackle quite a lot of the stupid obsessions that have sprung up around modern urban parenting--everything from un-schooling and attachment parenting to push presents and repetitive story books--with self-deprecating humor and an admission that kids are strangely resilient little critters and don't actually know fashion well enough to know what to expect from us. Some of the parents take stands that I strongly agree with and others make decisions I never would, but the overall message that emerges is that we don't all make the same decisions and that's ok. I don't know if there's actually anything here anyone needs to read--it's certainly not on my "must read" pile for new parents--but it's entertaining in a way that was actually a little calming. No, I will not turn into the lady who hired baby lion cubs for her son's first birthday. And if one of the other moms does, chances are, she feels faintly ridiculous about it, too.
Editors: Babble.com
Genre: Memoir/essays on parenthood
Thingummies: 3.5
Synopsis: A series of columns from Babble.com in which parents confess the "terrible" things they've done to their children, whether walking around the house naked or loathing their kid's best friend, and discover that their child somehow survives.
Thingummies: These columns are strangely reassuring. They tackle quite a lot of the stupid obsessions that have sprung up around modern urban parenting--everything from un-schooling and attachment parenting to push presents and repetitive story books--with self-deprecating humor and an admission that kids are strangely resilient little critters and don't actually know fashion well enough to know what to expect from us. Some of the parents take stands that I strongly agree with and others make decisions I never would, but the overall message that emerges is that we don't all make the same decisions and that's ok. I don't know if there's actually anything here anyone needs to read--it's certainly not on my "must read" pile for new parents--but it's entertaining in a way that was actually a little calming. No, I will not turn into the lady who hired baby lion cubs for her son's first birthday. And if one of the other moms does, chances are, she feels faintly ridiculous about it, too.
