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Rage Against the Minivan
- Learning to Parent Without Perfection
- De: Kristen Howerton
- Narrado por: Kristen Howerton
- Duración: 5 h y 13 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 144
In this smart and subversively funny memoir, Kristen Howerton navigates the emotional and sometimes messy waters of motherhood and challenges the idea that there’s a “right” way to raise kids. Recounting her successes, trials, mishaps, and hard-won wisdom, this mother of four advocates for letting go of the expectations, the guilt, and the endless race to be the perfect parent to the perfect child in the perfect family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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You don't have to be a parent to RAGE
- De John D Crews en 06-14-20
- Rage Against the Minivan
- Learning to Parent Without Perfection
- De: Kristen Howerton
- Narrado por: Kristen Howerton
You don't have to be a parent to RAGE
Revisado: 06-14-20
Had the honor of being one of a small cadre of men on the book launch team, so I did have advanced access to a review copy of the book. I loved it. Thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining read. I also just finished my first listen (won’t be the last) of the Audible version which I purchased.
I don’t think that I fall into Kristen’s target audience. I’m a middle aged, white, single guy with no kids of my own. I first became aware of her and her Rage Against the Minivan blog about 5 years ago. I don’t recall the exact piece of social content that caught my eye, but it had to be something about her unique blended family. I may not “have” kids, but as a 30 year public school coach and teacher I have many of what I call my “By Choice Sons” and most of them are black or multi-racial. So Kristen’s experience raising 2 black boys in a white American family was what initially attracted me. It was her no-holds-barred perspective and snarky sense of humor that kept me coming back.
In her book, also entitled Rage Against the Minivan, she brings all of that by the van load. She has terrific insights into the adoptive process in general and especially navigating the treacherous waters of raising black sons in this society. And she does so in ways that are both moving and humorous. By far the most emotional topic Kristen explores with gut wrenching honesty is infertility and miscarriages. In one chapter I was sobbing at her account of her first miscarriage and in the next, laughing hysterically at her story of bringing her eldest two kids to the beach. Throughout, there are plenty of moments of pain and more of laugh out loud humor.
Raising kids isn’t easy. In sharing her own struggles, Kristen pulls back the curtain on the rosy veneer of the social media super moms. Her honesty is her greatest gift. I think parents will chuckle with recognition and sigh with relief as they read Rage Against the Minivan. With love and honesty, Kristen shows the way to successful parenting in this modern world. And that’s pretty much the secret sauce, love and honesty. Now, how to get the secret sauce stains off the seats of the minivan.
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