8/11/09

Reader's Notes - PN 2.20 - Kids: Doing Too Much, Doing Nothing At All

Today's book blogging concerns parenting books -- or maybe "kidsing" books.


Cool Mom Picks had high praise for a book satirizing the competitive parent in many of us, the wryly named "Perfect Baby Handbook." From thingamababy, musing on a memoir, "Where did you go? Out. What did you do? Nothing," that suggests, first, that kids these days really wouldn't know what to do with themselves without all the high-falutin' gadgets and, second, that you should all go and buy your child a knife.