James Lileks
Donâ€™t throw out the baby with the bathwater!,Ahhhh, the 1940s and â€™50s . . . a time when parents everywhere strove for the American Dreamâ€”manicured lawns, a shiny car in the driveway, and perfect children playing in the yard. Raising kids was simpler back then, or was it?,In ,Mommy Knows Worst,, youâ€™ll be treated to a visual feast of past parenting neurosesâ€”as well as insight into why concerned moms and dads were driven to buy â€œdeliciousâ€ baby laxatives, douse their baby in oil and put him in the sun, and strap Junior into a car seat that bore a strange resemblance to scrap metal. If youâ€™re a baby boomer who lived through this childhood torture, well, weâ€™re sorry. But if humor really is the best medicine (rather than bicarbonate of curd and mustard plaster, as was previously recommended for childhood ailments), then ,Mommy Knows Worst , is cheaper than therapy.,Photographs, advertisements, magazine articles, and government-issue parenting guides, which seemed so helpful in their day, are given a whole new slant by the master of the genre, James Lileks. ,Mommy Knows Worst , is a rollicking tribute to old-fashioned parenting that gives us a whole new reason not to forget our pastâ€”itâ€™s hilarious!
Humor,Nonfiction,Parenting,History,Culture,Pop Culture,Adult
Mommy Knows Worst: Highlights from the Golden Age of Bad Parenting Advice