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Dirt is Good for You: True Stories of Surviving Parenthood
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Babble.com
Babble.com is the brainchild of the creators of Nerve.com, and has fast become the biggest name in parenting media.From their incredibly popular Bad Parent column comes a breakthrough anthology: a collection of brutally honest,eye-opening tales of imperfect parenting from a host of acclaimed writers and real parents alike. For any parent who has contemplated tossing their...more
Paperback, 256 pages
Published
September 9th 2009
by Chronicle Books
(first published August 26th 2009)
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I am a big fan of books filled with essays. Non-fiction, short stories are perfect for tossing in your purse and reading whenever the bus is late, or sitting in the doctors office.
This book is brought to you from the editors of Babble. Babble is a website dedicated to all things parent related. I love the site, they have such an excellent variety of articles, you will find yourself on this site for a long time.
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This book is brought to you from the editors of Babble. Babble is a website dedicated to all things parent related. I love the site, they have such an excellent variety of articles, you will find yourself on this site for a long time.
I got this book through the Amazon Vine program. If you are a member of the program, y...more
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 nev...more
Gross. I am so done with essays in which parents "confess" to making totally mainstream choices like formula-feeding or letting their kids watch TV as if they're doing something radical. Get out of Park Slope occasionally, guys, the pressure is overwhelmingly coming from the other direction. If I hadn't been stuck on a plane with this book, I'd have put it down after the first chapter.
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I love this book. It is full of short stories by real parents. I read it from cover to cover in a couple of hours because I couldn't get enough of it. I could really relate to some of the stories in it.
Great book of essays on parenting issues - made me laugh out loud!
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