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Summary: Stressed parents need buy.................................
Review: I love this book!!! As a first time parent of a now seven month old baby girl, many people are surprised at my laid back yet firm approach to parenting. This book captures my feel for the way I want to raise my child with so much wit and humor, I find myself laughing out loud while reading it!!! I have reccomended this book to every parent and parent-to-be that I know. Any "uptight" mom and dad should read this!! We were here first!! We get so overwhelmed as parents trying to raise smart, healthy, and safe children we forget to take time for ourselves and RELAX and enjoy our children. We also forget that WE are the PARENTS and WE run the show. Even if you don't have kids this book should be read.
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Summary: definitely a five-olive read!
Review: i read this during my son's naptime as my four-year-old was insisting I help dress her Polly Pockets...and laughed so hard i nearly wet my pants! A must-read for anyone with children! Cheers!
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Summary: Truthful Observations
Review: If you ever wonder why adults can never get together, this is the book for you. Everyone is "soooo busy" with their kids that the idea of having evening cocktails with friends or staying out late has become almost taboo. It's like we're grounded! We bring kids into this world and adult life with all its inherent joys and freedoms are suddenly ended. My parents went out every Saturday night because on Sunday mornings, they slept in and enjoyed their day off. We kids all found "something to do" - a lost concept, indeed. This book made me feel relieved that I'm not the only one bewildered by how much things have changed. I'm only giving it 3 stars because it was too short, and failed to comment on how the two-parent working family has caused all of this stress and nonsense in the first place.
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Summary: Snortingly funny
Review: If you're looking for a sweet book about the precious moments of motherhood, "The Three-Martini Playdate" is not it. This clever book takes a hilarious look at hyper-parenting today, wraps it up with a retro tone and spits it out with sarcasm. Warning: This book is not for the humorless. But if the title makes you snicker, it's for you and the other exhausted moms in your playgroup.
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Summary: Makes having kids sound fun!
Review: Reading Christie Mellor's take on being a mom made me want to run out and have some kids of my own. She manages to be both hilarious and wise, and I now wish I drank so I could have a martini and be like her.
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Summary: Cheap Imitation of Miss Manners
Review: The title is hilarious, but once you get past this, it's a second-rate [version] of a writing style perfected by Judith Martin in books like "Miss Manner's Guide to Raising Perfect Children." Mellor's comic references to children serving their hard-working parents cocktails are amusing at first, but soon grow tiresome. Mellor comically enshrines alcohol consumption as the ultimate adult pleasure. But she ignores the unfunny, dangerous and skyrocketing issue of binge drinking among teenagers, which this book could inadvertently reinforce. I realize Mellor's intent is not serious, but it underscores the wrong values. This book would never sell if it were called, "The Three-Marlboro Playdate" and emphasized the joys of parents smoking cigarettes together while their well-bred children provided ashtrays, dumped the butts, and then ran along to play among themselves. (...)
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Summary: Hilarious!
Review: This book is right on! It's a humerous look at child-rearing. I am eight months pregnant and I work in education. I am constantly exposed to spoiled kids, over-the-top parents, and many of the stereotypes Mellor writes about in the book. I already know what kind of parent I DON'T want to be, and Mellor's book just confirms it. It's a great laugh!
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Summary: Warning: Not for the humorless
Review: this has got to be one of the funniest books i've ever read. however, those of you who believe that your kids ARE the center of the whole universe might not find it so funny. someone has mentioned something about it might encourage binge drinking in teenagers, which is not funny. Binge drinking in ANYONE is not funny, but three martinis is hardly binge drinking. besides, if you're offended by the idea of someone drinking a few martinis, WHY WOULD YOU BUY THIS BOOK TO BEGIN WITH?
it is so refreshing to see someone from LA who realizes that children don't need to constantly be involved in some sort of activity (she refers to it as your child's '80-hour workweek') She also points out that your child also isnt benefiting from being picked up after and sitting in front of the TV all day. Almost everything she says is just plain common sense presented in a hip, almost Vegas-like quality.
I am the mother of a toddler who eats better than most 10 year olds i know, and the stepmother of an 11 yr old that, because of her mother's 'i want my children to depend on me' attitude, doesn't know how to operate a washing machine, microwave, vaccuum cleaner or dishwasher. she has just learned in the past year how to wash a dish, open a door with a key and has yet to learn how to use a knife to cut a sandwich. i wish i was making this up. i have three younger stepsisters that, due to their mother's attitude of 'it's just easier to get them to eat chicken fingers and hot dogs rather than to try to get them to eat anything else", will not eat anything other than chicken or hotdogs. my stepsister will be 21 in two weeks, and whenever she goes on a date she picks the restaurant based on the quality of their chicken fingers. 21 years old. still eats chicken fingers. let's just say that her mother's lack of determination to expand her children's horizons has stunted them in their later years. This book points out that WE ARENT DOING OUR CHILDREN ANY FAVORS BY DOING EVERYTHING FOR THEM. remember the term "spoiled rotten?"
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Summary: Hilarious, Surprising, Arch Advice
Review: With tongue firmly in cheek, Mellor deftly explodes all of the anxious mythology about modern, over-attentive parenting. Her book's not really an advice book, but a humorous riposte, even though there is a simple, fundamental message--relax, this isn't rocket science--hidden in plain sight. A welcome antidote to all the craziness. I'm much more appreciative of parenting/family books that use humor. I'd also urge you to read "I Sleep At Red Lights: A True Story of Life After Triplets," by Bruce Stockler, a laugh-out-loud memoir about trying to juggle, well, everything.
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