"Slightly sarcastic, absolutely on the mark and really, really funny!" - Bill Lindsay, Editor in Chief, Dominion Parenting Media/Parenthood.com

""The way I see it, my job as a parent is to put myself out of business. So far, my employment seems secure.""

Carol Band reports from the frontlines of suburbia. A chronicler of chaos, Carol tramples on the sacred ground of parenthood-from muddy soccer fields to the far-fetched notion of sex after childbirth.

Taken from the best of her popular column, "A Household Word," this book is required reading for anyone who is a parent, who is...