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Loading... Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay: And Other Things I Had to Learn as a New Momby Stefanie Wilder-Taylor
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Hilarious. I wish I read this while pregnant because she has lots of good observations that ring true. It was nice to know that someone else found the humor in pregnancy! ( ) Read this book if you are sick from the overload of information about parenting methods, dos and donts, etc. Just don't take her advice seriously. I think I appreciate this book more after going through all the motions of being a new mom myself, having experienced the ridiculous worrying over nothing and making a big deal out of tiny details. I enjoyed her criticizing the exaggeration of parenting in this new day and age. An entertaining read, but didnt leave a lasting impression. This book is a kind of anti-parenting guide. Instead of offering advice and suggestions on the many responsibilities of parenting, Wilder-Taylor takes many of the guidelines mentioned in the plethora of parenting books and picks them apart with her sarcastic humor. Her point is that the guides are a little extreme, and so are a lot of parents, while much of life does not progress like all the straightforward books would like you to believe. Some of her comments are extreme, but she certainly has a point. Parenting guides are excellent to have, and I've read my fair share of them, to be sure, but everyone has to remember that applying them to reality requires adjustment to your own individual life. Extreme application is not a good idea. I have run across people that push their ideas too hard, so a lot of the stories in this book were funny, and I could definitely relate to them. Also, once you become a parent, you suddenly are interested in all stories about children, yours or others. The humor was crass, and that was fine at first, but it started to get old by the end. I didn't always agree with all her points; sometimes she was too extreme in her laissez faire attitude, although I think it was mostly a joke. All the chapters are small, bite-size lengths, and it's a light read. Not much to it, just a relaxing little diversion. This book hit me at just the right time. Two months into parenthood, I've skimmed so many parenting books, received so much advice, and watched my own ideals already fade away--and to hear someone else say so much of what I've been thinking with wit and humor has been a welcome retreat. Sure, it's a predictable sort of humor, and I wouldn't have picked up this book three months ago. But if you know anyone in the first 6 months of parenthood, they should give this a read. no reviews | add a review
The moment the second line on the pee stick turns pink, women discover they've entered a world of parenting experts. Friends, family, colleagues, the UPS delivery guy-suddenly everybody is a trove of advice, much of it contradictory and confusing. With dire warnings of what will happen if baby is fed on demand and even direr warnings of what will happen if he isn't, not to mention hordes of militant "lactivists," cosleeping advocates, and books on what to worry about next, modern parenthood can seem like a minefield. In busy Mom-friendly short essays, Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay delivers the empathetic straight dirt on parenting, tackling everything from Mommy & Me classes ("Your baby doesn't need to be making friends at three months old-you do! But not with people you'll meet at Mommy & Me") to attachment parenting ("If you're holding your baby 24/7, that's not a baby, that's a tumor"). Stefanie Wilder-Taylor combines practical tips with sidesplitting humor and refreshing honesty, assuring women that they can be good mothers and responsibly make their own choices. No library descriptions found. |
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