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Indlæser... Mommy Knows Worst: Highlights from the Golden Age of Bad Parenting Advice (udgave 2005)af James Lileks
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. I love Lileks books as he is about the most sarcastic and witty author I know of. This book gathers parental advice from about 1915 on up to the early 60's and mercilessly makes fun of it. As Lileks himself says in the introduction, "This book is so unfair...for the most part they (the experts) got it right...But when they were wrong, they were brilliantly wrong. Incandescently wrong." Probably my favorite in the book is an old ad, maybe from the 40's, featuring an enraged father wielding a hairbrush as he chases a terrified little boy down the front porch. The ad copy has the boy saying," If he spanks me, I'm gonna run away from home!" The ad was for a children's laxative product! Maybe the parent was meant to show the picture to their own child and scare the crap out of them. ( ) Lileks is, bar none, the wittiest and funniest writer on the scene today. This is not his best book (see Regrettable Food), but it is filled with his trademark observations about times gone by. We all know when reading these decades-old items that they are cringe worthy, but only Lileks is able to view them in such a way as to make you wonder how these things ever got done. Plus he's a Minnesotan so we can be proud. ;-) ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
Don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater! Ahhhh, the 1940s and ’50s . . . a time when parents everywhere strove for the American Dream—manicured lawns, a shiny car in the driveway, and perfect children playing in the yard. Raising kids was simpler back then, or was it? In Mommy Knows Worst, you’ll be treated to a visual feast of past parenting neuroses—as well as insight into why concerned moms and dads were driven to buy “delicious” baby laxatives, douse their baby in oil and put him in the sun, and strap Junior into a car seat that bore a strange resemblance to scrap metal. If you’re a baby boomer who lived through this childhood torture, well, we’re sorry. But if humor really is the best medicine (rather than bicarbonate of curd and mustard plaster, as was previously recommended for childhood ailments), then Mommy Knows Worst is cheaper than therapy. Photographs, advertisements, magazine articles, and government-issue parenting guides, which seemed so helpful in their day, are given a whole new slant by the master of the genre, James Lileks. Mommy Knows Worst is a rollicking tribute to old-fashioned parenting that gives us a whole new reason not to forget our past—it’s hilarious! No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Indlæser... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)818.5402Literature English (North America) Authors, American and American miscellany 20th Century 1945-1999LC-klassificeringVurderingGennemsnit:
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