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Title: Conservative agenda masked as humour
Review: I looked forward to reading this book, expecting a humorous take on parents who overindulge their children - the kind of humour of "The Nanny Diaries" or the Shopaholic books. Instead, I found a conservative agenda masking as humour. Yes, there were some funny parts and Mead-Ferro makes some excellent points about not buying all the latest gadgets for children, that parents can parent with less paraphernalia and should let children figure things out for themselves (learn from their own mistakes). But a lot of it comes across as whiny justification for Mead-Ferro's "pull yourself up by your bootstraps", no-nonsense attitude. And when she says it's okay to hit your children once in a while if you're really mad and want to get something through to them, well ... if anyone wrote a book saying it was okay to whack your wife once in a while to get her to listen, there'd be an uproar.Don't bother with this book. Spend the time hugging your children instead.
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