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by: Christie Mellor  List Price: $12.95 Price: $5.81 You Save: $7.14 (55%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.874 Format: Bargain Price Label: Chronicle Books Manufacturer: Chronicle Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 144 Publication Date: May 03, 2007 Publisher: Chronicle Books Studio: Chronicle Books Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Chill the glasses! The author of the wildly successful Three-Martini Playdate is back with more irreverent and useful advice about life with children. Wickedly funny essays offer helpful advice on harnessing the energy of toddlers-gone-wild: on vacation, out to dinner, even just when grandmother stops by for a visit. Parents will relearn the art of traveling, socializing, and eating out like adults . . . sometimes with well-behaved children in tow. In dozens of short, kicky chapters like Cocktail Parties: Actually for Grown-ups! and The Theme Park Vacation: A Last Resort, Christie Mellor gently reminds parents that family vacations can truly be fun. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Let Me Offer Another Hint to Anybody Still in Need of OneDespite the scholarly title, Three-Martini Family Vacation: A Field Guide to Intrepid 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: - Still snortingly funnyIf you've ever had the back of your seat on a plane or train repeatedly kicked by a child whose parents seem to think that Junior is just "a little active, that's all," this book is for you. As snortingly funny as The Three Martini Playdate, this book makes for a fun read on the beach while other people's children have temper tantrums until their parents cave in and let them have potato chips for lunch, dammit. Buy one whether you're on vacation or not. You'll appreciate the laughs. Rating:  - Self Righteous, boringEvery chapter is exactly the same theme--how the author does things the right way [i.e. "her" way] and how every other parent on earth is annoying and wrong. I have a good sense of humor and thought this book would be funny--it's not. Her children's quirks [spicy toothpaste and picky eating] she seems to find amusing. Every other child's quirks, she finds a personal affront. I've met parents like her, and avoid them like the plague. Too bad it can't be rated zero stars. Rating: - Intelligent, hilariousI loved Three-Martini Playdate, the Three-Martini Family Vacation did not disappoint either; just as funny, insightful, and intelligently written as the first one, I love these books! Rating: - A Must Read !Probably the funniest book I have ever read on parenting. Mellor doles out wise parenting advice with a side of satire. A real break from other "real" parenting books and a quick read for the ever busy among us. A must for parents who can laugh at themselves and/or others. 
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