Searching for permission to drop your standards, ditch the guilt and relax?
The Secret of Half-arsed Parenting is a practical and entertaining antidote to the extreme stress of modern parenting. It pokes fun at the unrealistic goals and expectations thrust on parents today, and offers a way to raise kids with less pressure, less guilt, less stress and fewer cupcakes baked at midnight.
It's not about doing a bad job. It's about recognising that parents don't have to be perfect. What's wrong with toasted sandwiches for dinner? Kids sharing bedrooms and bathrooms? The fact your child's first word was 'Bluey' rather than 'Mama'? Half-arsed parents let their kids succeed - and fail - on their own merits. They will protect them from bullies, head lice and mullet hairstyles, but not from every knock and bump of life that will make them better adults.
Drawing on worrying research into anxiety in children and parents in this era of helicopter parenting, journalist and doctor of education Susie O'Brien lays out the case for embracing a bit of half-arsed parenting in your house. By doing half as much, you might just make everyone twice as happy. Here's how.
By:
Susie O'Brien
Imprint: Murdoch Books
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 153mm,
Weight: 372g
ISBN: 9781760525736
ISBN 10: 1760525731
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 02 February 2021
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Table of Contents INTRODUCTION: THE HALF-ARSED WAY SECTION ONE: BECOMING HALF-ARSED CHAPTER 1: HALF-ARSED PARENTING BASICS CHAPTER 2: HYPER-PARENTING - JUST DON'T DO IT CHAPTER 3: MEET TODAY'S ENTITLED BRATS CHAPTER 4: WHEN GOOD MUMS GO BAD CHAPTER 5: THE SCARY NEW WORLD OF PARENTING CHAPTER 6: IGNORE THE MUMMY WARS CHAPTER 7: STOP THE SOCIAL MEDIA MADNESS SECTION TWO: HALF-ARSED HOW-TOS CHAPTER 8: BIRTH, BABIES AND BULLSH*T CHAPTER 9: TODDLERS - HOW LOW CAN YOU GO? CHAPTER 10: TOO COOL FOR SCHOOL CHAPTER 11: TEENAGERS - DRINK, SNOG, SLEEP, REPEAT CHAPTER 12: SCREENS-TAMING THE DIGITAL NATIVES CHAPTER 13: HALF-ARSED CELEBRATIONS - UNDERWHELM AND UNDERPERFORM SECTION THREE: HALF-ARSED SOLUTIONS CHAPTER 14: HAPPY HALF-ARSED KIDS CHAPTER 15: HALF-ARSED HEROES CHAPTER 16: HALF-ARSED HAPPINESS CHAPTER 17: THE SECRETS OF HALF-ARSED PARENTING
Dr Susie O'Brien is a journalist and columnist with a PhD in Education. For the last 19 years she has written about parenting and social issues for the Herald Sun and other News Ltd papers, and she appears weekly on Channel Seven's Sunrise. She and her partner have five kids between them - they're the Brady Bunch, without Alice to cook dinner every night.
