Reality Parenting by Train Muller
Book description: Unlike TV sitcoms, real-life parenting leaves no room for commercial breaks. This book strips away common misconceptions about parenthood and focuses instead on its sometimes scary, sometimes stranger-than-fiction realities. Treion Muller, author of Mom.
Picture and description taken from goodreads.com
What I thought:
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I don't know why but I got the impression that this book would be more fun anecdotes of parenting experiences with some helpful advise thrown in every so often. There was a lot of useful tips but the way it was written made it seem like every parent reading would be older and out of touch with modern things. Obviously the teen sections of the book didn't apply to me since I only have young children but I can compare to things with my teenage siblings and even with myself since I wasn't a teen that long ago. There's some 'txttlk' things that I've never even heard of and some that are just translated wrong too - I just think they shouldn't have been put into the book if they're not going to be correct.
My favourite part of the book was the anecdotes which I wish there had been more of - seeing other parents real life experiences that are either fun or embarrassing would be amusing, relatable but also be a good lesson on how to or how not to do things. All of the lists in the book do give you good guide lines on what can work but writing about real life experiences relates more to a wider range of people.
Read April 12th 2014.
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