Rent This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: (Parenting. Marriage. Madness)

Synopsis

Clint Edwards has no idea what he's doing raising the sonand two daughters he has with his loving and ever patient wife, Mel. The truth,of course, is that no parent knows what he or she is doing--not even Mel--andthat's part of the fun as well as the horror. The short chapters either recountspecific stories from the front lines ("The Day We Caught Our Kids LookingAt Their Butt Holes," "She Sent Me to the Store for Feminine HygieneProducts") or take the form of lists--numbered observations, warnings, orwords of wisdom ("5 things I Never Should Have Said To My PregnantWife," "10 Contradictions That Make Me Want to Run From My MinivanAnd Into The Woods"). Edwards is invariably funny, wry, andself-deprecating. Parenting and marriage, as he describes them, are humbling,in both the worst (lots of poop and vomit) and best (personal growth) ways. Ifyou are a parent, husband, wife, or thinking about any of these roles, thisbook is for you. It will make you laugh. It will make you think. It will makeyou cry. Sometimes all three at the same time.

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