Kategoria BISAC: Humor >> Topic - Marriage & Family

A regular contributor to Good Housekeeping, Kyran Pittman has won the hearts of readers with her keen eye, wicked tongue, and deep affection for the vagaries of family life. In these eighteen linked essays, she covers the first twelve years of starting a family, writing candidly and hilariously about things like learning to maintain a marriage over time, the challenges of sex after childbirth, saying goodbye to her younger self and embracing the still attractive forty-...

Learning "write from wrong" can be so confusing for kids. Often the results are laugh-aloud funny, unintentionally clever, or accidentally wise. This charming book of blunders is comprised of teachers' and parents' "favorites." It expresses the timeless truth that the most strange and wonderful things often come from the minds of children....

My family and most of my friends will accept my departure from this earth. But I don t really know what to do about some of my friends in the Writers Circle. Even if they see the death certificate, there are some of them who just don t trust me. In fact, there is one member who did not believe it when I was hospitalized. I d had major surgery for Pete s sake, but when I came back, he swore that he d seen me alongside the I-5 freeway in an orange jumpsuit picking up trash. I am sure he will look around at each meeting for weeks after my funeral, clearly expecting to see me walk in saying,...

Admissions rates of 6 percent? Kids applying to thirty-two colleges? Sixteen-year-olds with more impressive resumes than Fortune 500 CEOs? Has the nation lost its mind? Why yes, it has J.D. Rothman, the Neurotic Parent of blog fame, takes readers on a hilarious satiric journey through today's insane college admissions process. The vividly illustrated book takes you from the Itsy-Bitsy Fiske Guide and Junior Kumon Tips for Preschoolers through Rejection Letters from the Heart and Bed Bath & Bye-Bye.

Be honest. Are you normal? Are your friends and family normal? If the answer to either question is "No," this book will make you feel better about yourself. Either it will make you feel normal by comparison, or it will help you understood what makes a person become, remain, and grow ever increasingly not-normal.

For example, you learn that "not-normal" is...

...genetic. You inherit it from your not-normal ancestors, like the one who drills holes in the floor to fix a leaky roof. You pass the not-normal gene to your children, like the two who play Peter Pan and Captain Hook...