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Summary: Great Read
Review: Jennifer Margulis has put together a superb collection of toddler stories. This is NOT a how-to book; it's real life stories that are inspirational, informative, and entertaining. It makes a great gift! In fact, I've given it to everyone I know who has (or is thinking of having) a toddler.
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Summary: Toddlers' Tale Finally Told!
Review: Margulis has managed to describe and portray the wonder, emotion and insanity of the toddler years perfectly. As a mother of three, I have slogged through many of the same scenarios and come out the other side forever changed and enlightened. (Not to mention sticky.) Her stories are well told, and the perspective from which she tells them is shared by every mother. The essay by Karen Driscoll is a wonderful compliment to this book, and gives the reader all the more reason to curl up with it after along day in the trenches. If you are considering purchasing this one, go for it! You won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Refreshingly real
Review: There are so many times as a parent when you long to ask, "Am I the only one who feels this way???" Here's a book that will give you the answer you've hoped for - "No, honey, you're not alone, we ALL love our children and we ALL think they're going to be the death of us if we have another day like today." Like having a bunch of thoughtful, eloquent, funny friends at your next playgroup!
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Summary: Funny
Review: This book is filled with funny true-to-life stories that parents of preschoolers will identify with. You will nodd and laugh your way through it. A must read! By: Debbie Farmer, parenting humorist and author of 'Don't Put Lipstick on the Cat!'
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Summary: Funny
Review: This book is filled with funny true-to-life stories that parents of preschoolers will identify with. You will nodd and laugh your way through it. A must read! By: Debbie Farmer, parenting humorist and author of 'Don't Put Lipstick on the Cat!'
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Summary: A great I-can-identify-with-THAT book for any parent
Review: This book is truly a must-have for any parent in the throws of toddler-mania, or about to enter it (and possibly even for those who've already survived it and want a good hindsight laugh or two!).
There are more than enough parenting how-to books written by "experts," but what parents need many days is validation through another parent's experience that their life, albeit crazy many days, is perfectly normal. This collection also provides many opportunities for parents to focus on how blessed they are --- even if their living room walls were recently decorated with a colorful mural whose medium is non-washable markers.
by Elizabeth Lyons
author of Ready or Not...Here We Come! The REAL Experts' Cannot-Live-Without Guide to the First Year with Twins (Finn-Phyllis Press)
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Summary: The Best Collection of Parenting Stories I've Read
Review: This is an eloquent, well-rounded collection of excellent writings that parents will relate to-not just parents of toddlers. I cried and laughed my way through the entire book, which I read in one sitting. The stories are wistful, gritty, heart-wrenching, hilarious and above all else-honest. These are stories about what it's REALLY like to have young children.
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Summary: Hold the syrup
Review: Those looking for a syrupy, sentimental, all-warm-and-fuzzy idealization of child-rearing probably won't like this one so much; but it will resonate with others who are more open to consider the complex range of experiences and emotions toddlers bring to their parents. I would not describe it so much as a how-to manual, but more as a testament to the fact that people who become parents are still people in other respects too. In this regard I'm partial to one piece in particular, "Is It Day Now?" by Shu-Huei Henrickson. If you have a kid already, buy it and read it, and you'll take heart from good company in many of your feelings. If you don't have a kid yet, buy it and read it too, and you'll get a better sense of what may be in store!
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Summary: A wonderful book
Review: TODDLER is a must-read for any parent of a child who has suddenly shape-shifted from a sweet, content, cooing infant to a suprisingly strong-willed 3-foot-tall drill seargant. Often, we mothers and fathers of toddlers keep our war stories to ourselves, trying in vain to sustain the illusion that we do, in fact, wear the pants in our house. But anyone who's actually been the caretaker of a stubborn developing human whose pointed goal of complete independence is continually thwarted by stature, social constraints, and parental interference knows who the boss really is. TODDLER is a kind of parenting tell-all, a first-person, behind-the-scenes glimpse of the toughest reality show there is: raising a child. Parents will be comforted to discover that their kid isn't the only one with inexplicable demands and intense preferences, and it will come as a relief to know that parents have plenty of company in the challenging experience of shepherding their charges through the hard-going terrain of two-year-old life. And yet the book is not all horror stories and I-can't-believe-she-said-that-in-front-of-the-neighbors incidents: while there is none of the treacly "but it's all worth it" sentiment that often pervades writing about life with young children, the book does feature sweet moments reminding us why it is we love our irascible, demanding, incredible toddlers as much as we do. TODDLER is a unique and wonderful book -- and a must-have addition to any mother or father's parenting library. by Andrea Buchanan
Author of _Mother Shock: Loving Every (Other) Minute of It_(Seal Press)
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