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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 818.607 EAN: 9780811840545 ISBN: 0811840549 Label: Chronicle Books Manufacturer: Chronicle Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 144 Publication Date: March 01, 2004 Publisher: Chronicle Books Studio: Chronicle Books Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Parents were here first! How did the kids suddenly take control? Sure the world has changed from the days when children were supposed to be seen and not heard but things have gotten a little out of hand. What about some quality time for the grownups? Author Christie Mellor's hilarious, personal, refreshing, and actually quite useful advice delightfully rights the balance between parent and child. In dozens of short, wickedly funny chapters, she skewers today's parental absurdities and reminds us how to make child-rearing a kick. With recipes, helpful hints, and illustrations, this high-spirited book is the only book parents will really need and enjoy. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - I had to laugh at the negative reviewsFirst, for those who missed it, the comments about martinis are tongue-in-cheek. I laughed out loud over some of the reviews which describe the author as not liking children or being intolerant of other parenting techniques, because I *KNOW* what those people's kids are like. The author does not dislike children nor is it alternate parenting techniques she is intolerant of--it's the whiny, spoiled rotten brats they produce she doesn't like. I'm pediatrician who's been ... Read More Rating: - Let Me Offer a Hint to Anybody Still in Need of OneDespite the scholarly title, The Three-Martini Playdate: A Practical Guide to Happy Parenting, is NOT an expert approved, exhaustively tested, lawyer vetted guidebook for the raising of children. Rather, it is a HUMOR book, one woman's personal reaction to a certain type of parent that we are ALL familiar with while TRYING to be funny. (If you don't know of any parents who fit these descriptions that MIGHT be because YOU do.) Thus, Ms. Mellor makes use of exaggeration, irony, and even deliberately ... Read More Rating: - A great gift for the eighth monthI gave this book to an expectant mother in her eighth month who was tired of being pregnant and just wanted to have her baby. She lauged out loud and finished the book in an afternoon. She said it made her forget her extra weight and back discomfort. Since then, I have given it to others expectant mothers and grandmothers-to-be who have also enjoyed it immensely. Warning, this is a tongue-in-cheak book which tells you the proper age to have your child mix cocktails. Not for those without a sense ... Read More Rating: - Parenting Advice for GrownUpsI've given this book to two adult (that is: over 30, educated professionals who don't intend to surrender their entire lives and minds over to the little one) couples as shower gifts. Both times, I was told how much the recipients enjoyed it. It's a tongue-in-cheek but practical book to raising children without devolving into their Barney-babbling slaves. I'll definitely order again when the next set of friends is expecting! Rating: - Absolutely wonderfulI rarely laugh out loud when reading. This book caused people to give me odd looks on the commuter bus. Hilarious, wickedly satirical, with a good message underneath it all. Properly written, with illustrations straight out of the 1950s. I loved it. I'm guessing the people who gave this book a poor review don't "get" The Colbert Report, either. 
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