Confessions of a Slacker Mom (Muffy Mead-Ferro) PB-Good

Parents Who Are Fed Up With The Pressure To Turn Their Children Into Star Athletes, Concert Violinists, And Merit Scholars — All At Once! — Finally Have An Alternative: The World Of Slacker Moms, Where Kids Learn To Do Things For Themselves And Parents Can Cut Themselves Some Slack; Where It”s Perfectly All Right To Do Less, Have Less, And Spend Less. Slacker Moms Say No To Parenting Philosophies That Undermine Parents” — And Children”s — Ability To Think For Themselves. They Say Yes To Saving Their Money And Time By Opting Out Of The Parenting Competition. And They Say Hell, Yes! To Having A Life Of Their Own, Knowing It Makes Them Better Parents. In This Witty And Insightful Book, Author Muffy Mead-ferro Reflects On Her Experience Of Growing Up On A Ranch In Wyoming, Where Parenting — By Necessity — Was More Hands-off, People Made Do With What They Had, And Common Sense And Generational Wisdom Prevailed. We Should All Take Her Sane Lead! – Publisher. Good-bye Herd — Toys Aren”t Us — Just Dip The Whole Thing In Bronze — The World Isn”t Childproof — There Goes Harvard — A Bathroom Of One”s Own — Don”t Make Me Mad — Now All You Need Is A Village– Has Anyone Seen My Instinct? Muffy Mead-ferro. Originally Published: San Francisco : Pince-nez Press, C2004.