title: I'm Okay, You're a Brat!: Setting the Priorities Straight and Freeing You From the Guilt and Mad Myths of Parenthood
author: Susan Jeffers
description: Whether you are already a parent or just suspect you will be one someday, <I>I'm Okay, You're a Brat</I> is sure to change your perceptions about the responsibility. With individual chapters devoted to topics such as full-time parenting, breastfeeding, custody in case of divorce, and remaining childfree, the realism presented will shatter any remaining illusions you may be harboring. Determined to explode the myth of continually joyous parenting, author Susan Jeffers replaces it with a more realistic view of the life changes and emotional difficulties associated with such a long term and essentially thankless task. Jeffers accomplishes this by emphasizing the difference between loving your children and actually enjoying parenting them, a difference that is rarely examined in this age of guilty, overworked parents.
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  So Stinkin' Deer
  
  By J.D. Light
  
  Copyright © 2019 J.D. Light  
  
  Edited by Ann Attwood Editing and Proofreading Services
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Prologue
  
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  I was so nervous that first day of Pre-K. I was starting almost seven months
  behind everyone else due to having been put on a wait list, and I was an only
  child who'd spent my days in the company of my grandparents, who babysat me
  while my mother and father worked. Since both of my parents had been older
  when they had me, and I'd basically been what my grandma considered a miracle
  baby, I didn't have siblings, and my parents weren't friends with people who
  had kids my age. The only kids I ever spent any length of time with had been
  teenagers at the youngest, and though some of them had been pretty nice to me,
  they weren't really into the same things I was.
  
  It wasn't even a surprise that I'd ended up on the playground after our snack,
  playing by myself in the very corner of the fenced-in lot, building th