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Missing Something? vol.1
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You'll Laugh, You'll Cry
I don't usually go for the "we're all in this together, girls" sort of humor that characterizes many books about being a mother. The laughs always seem too easy and if I really want to chuckle about poop, I'd prefer to do it on my own because chances are, whatever happened during the wee-hours diaper change is indeed funnier, but also more disgusting than what I'll find in easy laughs books.
BUT. But my sister-in-law gave me (somewhat at the bidding of Felix, who wandered into a store that was heavily promoting it) a book that really is funny. Part of the hilarity, I think, is that it holds no single target for its barbs, everyone is suspect, from the spoiled urban mother to the placenta-burying type, to the women who inexplicably married idiot men. And all of these types are happily skewered in charming photographs of adorable anthropomorphized chicks (as in the bird) with savage captions.
At any rate, if you're looking for a present for a mother or impending mother who isn't overly sensitive, or for someone who is but who also has a good sense of humor, you may want to check out Hatched by Sloane Tanen.
On darker fronts, I tormented myself by reading a Salon interview with Susan Gregory Thomas, author of Buy Buy Baby about the obnoxious and unfortunately aggressive marketing campaigns that are visited upon the toddler set. It takes considerable amounts of energy to fight this system, and I'm not sure it is even possible to be successful.
One suspects one is ahead of the game if one manages to encourage skepticism.
posted by Elise at 8:02 AM
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