Parenting Humor

Every parent has stories about their kids’ antics. The kind of stories that result in fall-on-the-floor laughter. The vignettes in this book will appeal to anyone who has had, or is planning to have, children. It’s a compilation of the best of the authors’ child-rearing experiences from topics like toilet training and selective deafness to traveling with our cherubs. But Honey, He Has Purple Hair is written in Erma Bombeck’s tongue-in-cheek style with sometimes differing perspectives from the authors. Sure, raising kids is a challenge. But what’s to stop you from doing it with ...

With two million copies sold worldwide, Sarah Knight's best-selling No F--ks Given Guides prove that she's the Queen of No: no to a single extraneous f--k given, to unwanted obligations, overcommitting and overcomplicating her life. For Sarah, saying no is easy. For the rest of us, it's stress-inducing, blood pressure-raising, teeth-grinding hard. But it doesn't have to be. F--k No! is filled with tips, techniques and practical strategies that will arm you with not only permission to decline but plenty of ammunition for doing so.

Conviértete en una potencia comunicativa irresistibleVa mucho más allá de la palabra hablada. Lo que tienes que decir verbalmente es sólo una pequeña parte de lo que se necesita para cautivar a tus oyentes y ganarte al mundo.

Coming from one empathetic parent to another, the tips in this book are real, clever, honest, and designed to make life with a terrible two- or three-year-old a little bit more manageable. Hilarious, helpful, and handy, this book will be appreciated by any parent who has asked: "Why didn't anybody warn me that unconditional love would be so much work?"

Attention all potty-mouthed, cheap-wine-drinking mothers: Prepare to meet your match. Any bad thought you’ve had about your kids, Nicole Knepper has had worse. Much worse. It’s not that she doesn’t love her kids. It’s that she understands what a mind-f*?% it can be to try to civilize those wild little beasts.

After years of working as an image-obsessed actress in Hollywood, Roxanne finds herself at rock bottom from a disease that is anything but glamorous. In her first year of recovery, Roxanne has to take accountability for her past. From tales of being mistaken for a prostitute at the Hotel Bel-Air to botching a threesome attempt with an A-list celebrity, she must face the truth about herself and stop playing the victim.

A secret baby, a second chance... The last person Toby Wilkinson expects to rescue in the middle of an earthquake is the woman he had a holiday fling with three years ago. He’s even more surprised when she tells him the little boy whose life he has just saved is his son. Esther Tyler wishes she’d been rescued by anyone but the father of her child. She can’t forgive him for walking away from her, but with her home little more than a shell, she has no choice but to accept his offer to stay in his apartment... where she finds a sexy role-playing game in his suitcase. While her flat is ...

The Beaverton High School Breakfast Club show up for what they thought would be cleaning the locker room with a toothbrush when the morning goes horribly wrong, and they fall victim to a deadly, dark spell. Some jerkwad moon mage shoves the consciousness of Petra's three-year-old into the body of a musclebound barbarian, and she is transformed into a halfling. The kids get stuck as a cleric, fire mage, and other stalwarts of your typical fantasy gaming party.

Matt Handen has been offered a second chance by his son who wants him to be part of the effort to restore the historic home he just bought...but can Matt set aside his pride and made amends with the son he betrayed...Regrets is the sixth novella in the ongoing Andersen Family Saga. Livia Andersen was a woman who held her family together with a quiet smile and an iron will. It’s been less than a month since her death and the four children she leaves behind grapple with the shifting changes in their lives now that she’s gone. But they are not alone in their grief. Nate Handen loves his ...

When you're blind, you see with your heart... Teddi Life’s tough. I can’t argue with that. I’m not referring to being blind. That brings its own challenges, but I’ve never let it hold me back from doing anything I wanted to do. I’m talking about losing my partner before the age of thirty. I thought I had it all figured out—marriage, kids, the whole parcel, neatly tied up with a bow, but it wasn’t meant to be. While Will lay dying, he made me promise never to love anyone else. I did, of course, because that’s what you do, and I meant it, at the time. And then I met Ethan. ...

He may not win Father of the Year, but Clint Edwards has won the hearts of thousands, thanks to his candor and irreverence when it comes to raising kids, being married, and learning from his mistakes. Clint has three children: Tristan (the know it all), Norah (the snarky princess), and Aspen (the worst roommate ever). He describes parenting as "a million different gears turning in a million different directions, all of them covered in sour milk." In this inspiring and unconventional book of essays, he sheds light on the darker yet hilarious side of domestic life.

Could you be happier? When Hugh van Cuylenburg went to India on a teaching trip he met a joyful 10-year-old student who taught him lessons that changed his life. Since setting up The Resilience Project, Hugh has shared what he learned with over a million Australians through his show GEM, a series of comical anecdotes, moving stories and practical methods for leading a happier and more resilient life.

A humorous and thoughtful look at life while raising two kids. Observations that make us think and laugh because these are journey's we are all on. From taking the most important class in high school, to the worst fake I.D. of all time, to teaching my son how drive while not having an heart attack, this book will take us back to a time when all was right. Or at least we thought it was.

Kiss Mommy Goodbye is a major new novel from bestselling author Nicholas Walker. Peter Webb is a rock superstar living in California who has everything, but his failing relationships with women leave him hankering back to when he was a simple schoolteacher and on a whim he adopts a fourteen year old girl. Getz, was removed from abusive parents and placed with foster parents and when the story starts it has just been discovered that the foster Father has been sexually assaulting her for the last three years. She has become a highly disturbed young girl who cannot stand any male touching her ...

Childland is the story of a group of children journeying through an adult world. The wicked headmaster “Evil Ear” and his teacher friends battle against the kids to turn them into grownups. It’s a war to the death, with no holds barred. The children vow to stay children forever, and even when they grow up—they will always be children at heart. A grownup is a child who forgot he used to be a child, forced to wear a grownup mask for so long that he doesn’t remember what’s beneath the mask and who he really is. He’s forgotten to play, laugh and have fun, and instead just goes to ...

Everyone wants to live a life full of meaning, purpose, and success. Yet you clutter your mind with limiting thoughts of can't do this, can't do that, it's too high, too far, too great to achieve. Divided into two sections, Subliminal Affirmations and Laws of Attraction guide, this audiobook will show that your subconscious is the most powerful tool to help alter your life in a positive manner.

What do you get when you cross a mischievous six-year-old boy, a hatchet, a pet lizard and the oft repeated question, what happens to a lizard when it loses its tail? Or, what is a mother to do when, as she exits the store with a basket full of groceries, she looks up to see her blue station wagon rolling across the parking lot with four little kids, screaming at the tops of their lungs, trapped inside? In Little Heathens, author Ron Bay, Jr. takes us on a delightful and hilarious journey of adventure, innocence, and discovery through the eyes of an eight-year-old boy. Join Ron as he ...

101 Awesome Things To Do With Your Child And Other Musings of a Divorced Dad is a parenting book for everyone. Written with an open mind, an open heart, lots of charm and plenty of humor this collection of engaging stories, wonderful bond-strengthening activities, parenting tips, and heartfelt thoughts will inspire. Robert Urban’s writing style is entertaining to say the least. His parenting tips, stories and “tangents” as he calls them will open your eyes to new perspectives and allow you to see things in a new yet familiar way. Likely at times he is going to catch you off guard and ...

1. Are you in a leadership position at work? 2. Do you frequently communicate big ideas to your team? 3. Do you find yourself wondering if your message is being received the way it was intended? 4. Are you looking for a way to deepen your impact as a leader and a speaker? If the answer to any of these questions is YES, then this book can you be trusty sidekick helping use humor to deliver messages and plant seeds of change in your organization. Humor Science takes an engineering approach to the art of being engaging.

Mommy's Guide to Saying 'No' is a hilarious, eye-opening, and brutally honest guide for parents seeking to master one of the most elusive arts of parenting - saying 'no' to their kids. Whether you're a first-time parent navigating the supermarket tantrum thunderdome, or a seasoned pro dealing with the molten lava of teenage drama, this book is your savior, friend, and most importantly, your co-conspirator. With an edgy humor and real-life anecdotes, this book brings together a treasure trove of techniques to say 'no' without inciting World War III. But it's not all 'no'; the book also ...