Book Pitch

I’ve mentioned before that I’d like to write a book called Let Me Tell You: Parenting Tales of What Not to Do.  The book would include specific episodes of parental goof-ups, phrases worth swallowing, and knee-jerk reactions to avoid. Somedays, I think the stories are funny, and other days, I’m riddled with remorse. When regret wins the battle with humor in my brain, I stop writing and start cleaning.

I’ve decided to trust humor even when she loses and put my butt in front of the computer. My book is based on a long list of “whoopsies,” “oh shoots,” and “oh boy, shouldn’t have said that.” The good news is that forgiveness always prevails – of self and of others. As Tim O’Brien says in The Things They Carried, “Stories can save us.” I believe they really do.   

So for the next few days, I’m going to share some of chapters with you – Attempts at Dinner, Variances in Academic Perspectives, Wardrobe Consultation, Vehicle Collision Negotiation, Hair, PTPD – Post-Traumatic Permit Disorder, Alcohol Trojan Horses, Birth Order Pitfalls, First Words, Hot Bath Magic Debunked, Teenage Conspiracy Theory, Mysterious Laundry, and Generational Differences in Infant Care.

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