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Someone could get hurt : a memoir of twenty-first-century parenthood / Drew Magary.

by Magary, Drew.

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Gotham Books, [2013]

Parenting -- Humor.

Fatherhood -- Humor.

viii, 243 pages ; 22 cm.

Malrotation -- Merriweather Post Pavilion -- Chicken -- Gymboree -- Slow guy -- Princesses and paleskins -- Caesarian -- Evening at the improv -- Flathead -- DUI -- Spinning wheel of death -- Faka -- Hoddub -- The creek and the coffee cup -- Electric toothbrush -- Nits -- The list -- Funland -- Pizza night -- NICU.

Reveals how American mothers and fathers cope with being in over their heads (getting drunk while trick-or-treating, watching helplessly as a child defiantly pees in a hotel pool, engaging in role-play with a princess-crazed daughter), and how stepping back can sometimes make all the difference (talking a toddler down from the third story of a netted-in playhouse, allowing children to make little mistakes in the kitchen to keep them from making the bigger ones in life). It's a celebration of all the surprises--joyful and otherwise--that come with being part of a real family. Presents the story of head lice, almost-dirty words, and flat head syndrome, and a man trying to commit the ultimate act of selflessness in a selfish world.

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