Most Awesome Parenting Book Ever

As you may know or may have gathered, my sense of humor is a bit...off.  I love sarcasm and particularly when this is combined with parenting "tips," I'm in heaven.  For example, before the baby was born, I was in love with this book called "The Three Martini Playdate" by Christine Mellor.  It's beautiful.  There is a chapter about allowing your little snowflake to run around with a fork in his hands because, shockingly, there are sharp edges outside of your home and the world isn't baby-proofed.  It comments that once he puts the fork in a socket he won't do so again.  Horribly off-color.  But my kid's weapon of choice is a screwdriver, I find the chapter very funny (I don't really let him put screwdrivers into a socket nor run around with them).  Anyway, the book is a gem.


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But there is a new parenting book that is absolutely the bees' knees.  It has become quite the fad for parents to buy it for one another.  In fact, two different friends Amazon-ed it to me in the same week.  And there is good reason--when we read it both my dad and I were crying, we were laughing so hard.  It is called "Go the F%ck to Sleep" and is by Adam Mansbach.

The book is genius.  Particularly if you have a potty mouth like I, it's so dead-on, it's scary.  It could have just been funny for the title and the premise.  But there's so much more.  The illustrations are art--my kid loves looking at them (though I change the words).  The story is priceless.  It starts out basic enough: "The cats nestle close to their kittens, the lambs have laid down with the sheep.  You're cozy and warm in your bed, my dear.  Please go the f&ck to sleep."  But as it goes on, it perfectly chronicles the deep-seeded plight of all caretakers as they try to get a child to go to sleep.  My personal favorite is a line that all adults have wanted to say at one point or another--whether or not they admit it:  "I know you're not thirsty.  That's bulls&it.  Stop lying.  Lie the f&ck down, my darling, and sleep."  It's childish, horribly vulgar language-wise, and absolutely accurate.

And so there you have my recommendation of the week.  Seriously, if you don't mind the language, check out the book.  If you don't, someone else will and you will be the only loser on the block without it.  Just saying.