Bland and Unhelpful

Such a bland book that goes over and over the same idea so many times. I really felt like it was going to go somewhere, but it didn’t. She talks about wanting a 1950’s summer so her kids aren’t signed up for every activity but then let’s her kids watch tv for 4 hours straight and play video games so she can continue to work. So much complaining about how her children are inconvenient and don’t like what she wants and comparing to other families the whole way through. Oh and always talking about how her husband had an unhealthy obsession with the lawn.

There was about 2 or 3 sentences in the entire book that were decent and maybe held a nugget of advice in them.

The very last chapter is dedicated to ideas you can use with your children (which she didn’t use with her own) such as hopscotch, capture the flag, red light green light, four square and other seriously simple games.

I wouldn’t recommend this book, it was a waste of time and was not helpful in the slightest - I listened to it as part of a book club and I’m really not sure why they picked it.

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