Catastrophic happiness : finding joy in childhood's messy years / Catherine Newman.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2016Edition: First editionDescription: vii, 215 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780316337502
- 0316337501
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Main Library | NonFiction | 306.874 N551 | Available | 33111008401107 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A comic and heartwarming memoir about childhood's second act from Real Simple journalist Catherine Newman.
Much is written about a child's infancy and toddler years, which is good since children will never remember it themselves. It is ages 4-14 that make up the second act, as Catherine Newman puts it in this delightfully candid, outlandishly funny new memoir about the years that "your children will remember as childhood."
Following Newman's son and daughter as they blossom from preschoolers into teenagers, Catastrophic Happiness is about the bittersweet joy of raising children -- and the ever-evolving landscape of issues parents traverse. In a laugh out-loud, heart-wrenching, relatable voice, Newman narrates events as momentous as grief and as quietly moving as the moonlit face of a sleeping child.
From tantrums and friendship to fear and even sex, Newman's fresh take will appeal to any parent riding this same roller coaster of laughter and heartbreak.
Prologue: It gets better -- Civilizing -- Enduring -- Learning -- Inquiring -- Launching -- Faltering -- Becoming -- Epilogue: And better still.
The author discusses the bittersweet joy of raising children as she describes her family's own journey.
What will your children remember from their childhood? Newman discusses the bittersweet joys of raising children, and reflects on the ever-evolving roles parents play as children pass from baby to child to teen. Her fresh take will appeal to any parent riding this roller coaster of laughter and heartbreak.