Hell Is Other Parents

Author : Deborah Copaken Kogan
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-18
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781401394547

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Hell Is Other Parents by Deborah Copaken Kogan Pdf

I read No Exit in my early twenties, and I remember thinking hell might very well be other people, okay, sure, but under what far-fetched conditions would anyone ever actually be trapped forever in the company of strangers with no sleep or means of escape? Then I became a parent. From Deborah Copaken Kogan, the acclaimed author of the national bestseller Shutterbabe, comes this edgy, insightful, and sidesplitting memoir about surviving in the trenches of modern parenting. Kogan writes situation comedy in the style of David Sedaris and Spalding Gray with a dash of Erma-Bombeck-on-a-Vespa: wry, acutely observed, and often hilarious true tales, in which the narrator is as culpable as any character. In these eleven linked pieces, Kogan and her husband are almost always broke while working full-time and raising three children in New York City, one of the most expensive and competitive cities in the world. In one episode, exhausted from a particularly difficult childbirth, Kogan finds herself sharing a hospital room with a foul-mouthed teen mother and her partying posse. In another, Kogan manages to crawl her way to her own emergency appendectomy, which inconveniently strikes the same week her infant's babysitter is away on vacation, her adolescents are off from school, her New York Times editor needs his edit, and the whole family catches the flu. And in the book's capper essay, she drives twelve hours, solo, with a screaming toddler in a rent-a-car in a futile effort to catch a glimpse of her eldest child in his summer camp play. Yes, Shutterbabe is all grown up and slightly worse for the wear, but her clear-eyed vision while under fire has remained intact: You've never read funnier war stories.

Author : Deborah Copaken Kogan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-02
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 0316372994

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Hell Is Other Parents by Deborah Copaken Kogan Pdf

The author discusses parenting as the greatest challenge of her life in a series of essays that describes her haphazard encounters with overprotective, competitive, and interfering fellow parents.

Author : Delia Falconer
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781863954532

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The Best Australian Stories 2009 by Delia Falconer Pdf

After searching high and low for the year's outstanding short fiction, Delia Falconer has selected masterful stories from some of the country's best-loved authors and exciting work from the up-and-coming. 'Stories don't have the novel's luxury of great swathes of time, its layerings, its wanderings, its counterpoints,' she observes. 'Instead, they must cut to the bone straightaway . . . Sometimes they capture a shift in a whole world; at other times they put into words a mood or tone that we might not have seen, until it appears so beautifully before us.' With their wry humour, quiet intensity and elegant economy, these stories display Australian writing at its diverse, unpredictable best.

Author : Nathan Weathington
Publisher : Where the Hell Were Your Paren
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1927559405

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Where the Hell Were Your Parents? by Nathan Weathington Pdf

"A coming-of-age true story about what happens when you let your kids run feral--half Goodfellas, half Stand By Me, and three-quarters Dukes of Hazzard"--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781458742254

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The Best Australian Stories 2009 (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nikki Grimes
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781635925623

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Ordinary Hazards by Nikki Grimes Pdf

Michael L. Printz Honor Book Robert F. Sibert Informational Honor Book Boston Globe/Horn Book Nonfiction Honor Book Arnold Adoff Poetry Award for Teens Six Starred Reviews—★Booklist ★BCCB ★The Horn Book ★Publishers Weekly ★School Library Connection ★Shelf Awareness A Booklist Best Book for Youth * A BCCB Blue Ribbon * A Horn Book Fanfare Book * A Shelf Awareness Best Children's Book * Recommended on NPR's "Morning Edition" by Kwame Alexander "This powerful story, told with the music of poetry and the blade of truth, will help your heart grow."–Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Speak and Shout "[A] testimony and a triumph."–Jason Reynolds, author of Long Way Down In her own voice, acclaimed author and poet Nikki Grimes explores the truth of a harrowing childhood in a compelling and moving memoir in verse. Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, Nikki Grimes found herself terrorized by babysitters, shunted from foster family to foster family, and preyed upon by those she trusted. At the age of six, she poured her pain onto a piece of paper late one night - and discovered the magic and impact of writing. For many years, Nikki's notebooks were her most enduing companions. In this accessible and inspiring memoir that will resonate with young readers and adults alike, Nikki shows how the power of those words helped her conquer the hazards - ordinary and extraordinary - of her life.

Author : Nancy A. McDermott
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781440853197

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The Problem with Parenting by Nancy A. McDermott Pdf

The Problem with Parenting serves as an essential guide to the recent origins and current excesses of American parenting for students, parents, and policy makers interested in the changing role of the family in childrearing. Family scholarship focuses predominately on the evolution of family structure and function, with only passing references to parenting. Researchers who study parenting, however, invariably regard it as a sociological phenomenon with complex motivations rooted in such factors as class, economic instability, and new technologies. This book examines the relationship between changes to the family and the emergence of parenting, defined here as a specific mode of childrearing. It shows how, beginning in the 1970s, the family was transformed from a social unit that functioned as the primary institution for raising children into a vehicle for the nurturing and fulfillment of the self. The book pays special attention to socialization and describes how the change in our understanding of parenthood—from a state of being into the distinct activity of "parenting"—is indicative of a disruption of our ability to transfer key cultural values and norms from one generation to the next.

Author : Devorah Heitner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000918731

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Screenwise by Devorah Heitner Pdf

The second edition of Screenwise offers a refreshed, realistic, and optimistic perspective on how to thoughtfully guide kids in the digital age. Many parents feel that their kids are addicted, detached, or distracted because of their digital devices. Media expert Devorah Heitner, however, believes that technology offers huge potential to our children—if parents mentor them. Using the foundation of their own values and experiences, parents and educators can learn about the digital world to help set kids up for a lifetime of success in a world fueled by technology. Screenwise is a guide to understanding more about what it is like for children to grow up with technology all around them, and to recognizing the special challenges—and advantages—that contemporary kids and teens experience thanks to this level of connection. In it, Heitner presents practical parenting "hacks": quick ideas that you can implement today that will help you understand and relate to your digital native. The new edition includes updated material and additional strategies for parents and caretakers.

Author : M. Sue Talia
Publisher : Nexus Publishing Company
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0965107507

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How to Avoid the Divorce from Hell by M. Sue Talia Pdf

Written with humor and insight, this is a practical guide to avoiding the common pitfalls of divorce. In a clear and readable fashion, it describes what the courts can and cannot do, how to work effectively in the system, how to prepare for a custody evaluation, what to do when the other side goes for the throat, and how to find the best professionals to partner with. Filled with practical solutions to common divorce problems.

Author : Deborah Copaken
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780375758683

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Shutterbabe by Deborah Copaken Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The remarkable memoir of an ambitious young photojournalist who went off to war as a twenty-two-year-old girl—and came back, four years and many adventures later, a woman “Eloquent and well observed, not only about the memoirist, but about the world: war, death, photojournalism and, of course, the worldwide battle between the sexes.” —The Washington Post Book World In 1988, fresh out of Harvard, Deborah Copaken Kogan moved to Paris with a small backpack, a couple of cameras, the hubris of a superhero, and a strong thirst for danger. She wanted to see what a war would look like when seen from up close. Naïvely, she figured it would be easy to filter death through the prism of her wide-angle lens. She was dead wrong. Within weeks of arriving in Paris, after begging to be sent where the action was, Kogan found herself on the back of a truck in Afghanistan, her tiny frame veiled from head to toe, the only woman—and the only journalist—in a convoy of rebel freedom fighters. Kogan had not actually planned on shooting the Afghan war alone. However, the beguiling French photographer she’d entrusted with both her itinerary and her heart turned out to be as dangerously unpredictable as, well, a war. Kogan found herself running from one corner of the globe to another, each linked to the man she was involved with at the time. From Zimbabwe to Romania, from Russia to Haiti, Kogan takes her readers on a heartbreaking yet surprisingly hilarious journey through a mine-strewn decade, her personal battles against sexism, battery, and even rape blending seamlessly with the historical struggles of war, revolution, and unfathomable abuse it was her job to record. In the end, what was once adventurous to the girl began to weigh heavily on the woman. Though she had finally been accepted into photojournalism’s macho fraternity, her photographs splashed across the front pages of international newspapers and magazines, Kogan began to feel there was something more she was after. Ultimately, what she discovered in herself was a person—a woman—for whom life, not death, is the one true adventure to be cherished above all.

Author : Patrick Nathan
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781555979881

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Some Hell by Patrick Nathan Pdf

A wrenching and layered debut novel about a gay teen’s coming-of-age in the aftermath of his father’s suicide Colin’s family is dissolving in the aftermath of his father’s suicide. While his mother, Diane, retreats into therapy and cynicism, Colin clings to every shred of normal life. Awash with guilt, he casts about for someone to confide in: first his estranged grandfather, then a predatory science teacher. Shunned by his siblings and rejected by his homophobic best friend, Colin immerses himself in the notebooks his father left behind. Full of strange facts, lists, and historical anecdotes that neither Colin nor Diane can understand, the notebooks infect their worldview until they can no longer tell what’s real and what’s imagined. A novel of aching intensity, Some Hell shows how unspeakable tragedy shapes a life, and how imagination saves us from ourselves.

Author : Jeff Vogel
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0740750453

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The Poo Bomb by Jeff Vogel Pdf

Author Jeff Vogel did not go into parenthood with any delusions. He knew that he would love his daughter, and that was terrifying. What if he screwed up? And he knew that life with a baby would be different, that it would be filled with an endless stream of filthy diapers, unexplained wailing, and sleepless nights. Not to mention no sex. The parenting books painted a picture of smart, communicative babies and mindless, limitless joy, but he knew they were lying to him. So he wrote his own book. The Poo Bomb: True Tales of Parental Terror recounts, in a no-punches-pulled style, the first year of life of Cordelia, Jeff's freshly hatched, gooey human girl. The first year of parenthood isn't about joy or fulfillment. It is about menial labor, wiping up human waste, and marking time until the kid is old enough to run and play and thank you for its life. Jeff chronicles the journey through the morass of year one week by week. Rich with irreverent honesty and humor, The Poo Bomb is the reality show of parenting books: It reflects what most parents have sometimes guiltily felt about their not-so-delightful bundles of joy.

Author : Deborah Copaken,Randy Polumbo
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781452157689

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The ABCs of Parenthood by Deborah Copaken,Randy Polumbo Pdf

A wise, warm, and witty ebook for new (and gently used) parents seeking to raise positive, thoughtful children, this alphabet book brims with the advice only those who've been there can give. From "D is for Dog" (get one) to "P is for Praise" (do it often but appropriately) to "R is for Romance" (keep it alive after the kids come), each mini essay is coupled with a smart, letter-appropriate full-color photograph in these delightfully grown-up ABCs.

Author : Anna Lefler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781440531224

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The Chicktionary by Anna Lefler Pdf

You're all over the definitions of "low lights," "ruching," and a "tankini." But can you spot a "Mrs. Potato Head" when you see one? That's where The Chicktionary comes in. With the help of Anna Lefler and her collection of 450+ must-know words and phrases, you'll be in the know when faced with terms like Aberzombie, Bandeau, George Glass, and Puma. So whether you are dealing with a Residual Girlfriend, diagnose yourself with a bad case of Basset Knees, or need to go on a Briet, you'll be prepared for all that comes your way. At the very least, this book will serve as a delightful reminder that everyone has a skeleton in her closet--right next to her fat pants.

Author : Janet Bloom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798518571419

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Co-Parenting Hell by Janet Bloom Pdf

Parenting made easy... even if a narcissist is making your life miserable. Are you dealing with a difficult ex who's ruining your kids' childhoods? Does it feel impossible to be happy because of this, not being able to see a way out? Are the challenges of co-parenting too difficult that you feel lost and hopeless? Being a single parent is hard on its own. When you throw in a narcissistic ex, the process can be unbearable! You probably feel like you want to scream from the top of a mountain or pull your hair out because of the stress. It's okay. You are completely justified to feel this way. Take a break and relax, because there are plenty of solutions you can try. You are here because you care about your children. They need a loving parent to have a happy childhood. While narcissists are complex and open up many grey areas, single parents have been able to raise healthy children without the need to stress themselves out. That's what this guide will do for you. You can move on with your life, handle difficult situations, and focus on your children to the best of your abilities. These challenges might pop up one after the other, but with the right knowledge, you can knock them out of the park! In Co-Parenting HELL, you will discover: 6 distinct signs that you have a narcissistic ex and how you can deal with this difficult person in your life The importance of empathy parenting and how you can use this to raise healthy and happy children How to navigate a difficult situation if you have chosen to officially divorce your ex The underlying reason why your ex may be a narcissist and why they have developed this personality trait The common coercion techniques narcissists use -- and how you can stop them before it becomes explosive How to deal with difficult family members so you can live a carefree and happy life The importance of self-care to strengthen you and your children's mental well-being The steps to recover from being married to a narcissist and leave the past behind And much more. By having a detailed plan, a healthy way forward, and an eye for the future, your stress will melt away. Even a narcissistic ex that has caused you so much misery will seem like another bump in the road. All it takes is an experienced mentor, the will to move on, and the love for your children. Remember, this isn't about your ex. This is about your children and their happiness. That is the motivation that will get you through this. If you're ready to leave the past behind and raise healthy, happy children, then scroll up and click the "Add to Cart" button right now.