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"Author and popular Upright Citizens Brigade performer Doug Moe knows first-time fathers are as worried about being terrible at their new terrifying jobs as new moms are. But while most modern fathering guides center on men's oafish parental failings, Man vs. Child forgoes condescension in favor of fresh and irreverent wit. This guide for first-time dads tackles funny but important questions, like how to be a good dad without becoming a BabyBjörn-wearing...
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A laugh-out-loud, adults-only bedtime story for parents familiar with the age-old struggle of putting their kids to bed "Hell no, you can't go to the bathroom. You know where you can go? The f**k to sleep." Go the Fuck to Sleep is a book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don't always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland. Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, it captures the...
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128 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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Español
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Being a mother is very hard (and being a father, too; nobody is exempt). You spend the day washing and ironing and in the end you wind up with overly developed arms like Popeye. When I sit to talk to my friends about movies or television, and someone asks what my favorite program is, I say, "The delicate cycle." Let's admit it, children are wonderful, but much more so when they belong to someone else.
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229 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
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English
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Based on their popular illustrated math and science-related humor blog, Norine Dworkin-McDaniel and Jessica Ziegler dig into the core sciences--biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics--to help moms and dads everywhere solve the mysteries of parenthood.
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viii, 230 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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The stand-up comedian presents a funny collection of essays on being a mom that explores themes like "geriatric" motherhood, parenting in an environmental panic, fear and love, and conflicting advice on raising children.
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 17 x 22 cm
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"[A] bedtime book for parents who live in the real world ... profane, affectionate, and radically honest, it captures the familiar, and unspoken, tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night"--P. [4] of cover.
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xvi, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"From a distinctive, inimitable voice, a wickedly funny and fascinating romp through the strange, and often contradictory history of Western parenting"-- Provided by publisher.
Why do we read our kids fairy tales about homicidal stepparents? Exhausted, frazzled, and at sea after the birth of her two children, Traig began to interrogate the traditional parenting advice she'd been conditioned to accept at face value. The result is a deft-- and hilarious--...
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177 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
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"Lucy Knisley is one of the great memoirists of the graphic novel format. Following the completion of her pregnancy memoir Kid Gloves (and the birth of her baby), Lucy embarked on a new project: documenting new motherhood in short, spontaneous little cartoons, which she posted on her Instagram, and which quickly gained her a huge cult following among other moms."--Amazon.com.
As a new mother, Knisley documented her life in short, spontaneous little...
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