Author: Traig, Jennifer

Price: $14.75

Category:Self-Help
Publication Date:2020-01-13T00:00:01Z
Pages:352
Binding:Paperback
ISBN:10:0062469819
ISBN:13:9780062469816
Why do we read our kids fairy tales about homicidal stepparents? Exhausted, frazzled, and at sea after the birth of her two children, Traig began to interrogate the traditional parenting advice she'd been conditioned to accept at face value. The result is a deft-- and hilarious-- dissection of the history of Western parenting, moving from ancient Rome to Puritan New England to the Dr. Spock craze of mid-century America. Have our techniques actually evolved into something better? Or are we still just scrambling in the dark? -- adapted from jacket