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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Published: Mar 2004
Genre: Family & Relationships - Parenting
Retail Price: $12.95
Pages: 160
This is a backlash against the current mania for over-scheduling a child's time and buying all the latest gimmicks aimed at raising a Superkid. Some harried mothers begin by playing classical music for the fetus through special tummy headphones and later continue with feverish competition for the most esteemed preschool. Brought up on a cattle ranch in Wyoming, the author advocates a policy of
Whiney and complaining about parents and what they are doing to their children in the world. Too many toys, too much of this and that, etc. It was good for about one chapter maybe and then it became old and tiring to hear her complain.