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Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads
"Wise, funny, real, and right on, Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads will be your bible for handling the adults in your child's life—including yourself—with dignity and grace. Reading this book is an act of courage and love on behalf of you and your family."
RACHEL SIMMONS
author of Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls
"Rosalind Wiseman is consistently amazing for her window on the real world. As always, she has an uncanny knack for characterizing people whom we see every day, and I found her stories compelling and poignant. Her advice is specific and to the point and can only be extremely helpful to parents taking on the humbling and perplexing world of the other adults who play such a big part in their own kids' lives. Above all, I found this book to be extraordinarily compassionate."
ANTHONY M. WOLF, Ph. D.
author of Get Out of My Life, but First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall?
"If Wiseman was bold in her bestselling Queen Bees & Wannabes by telling the truth about adolescent girls and their excesses, she's even more daring here. The subject this time is parents, and the phrase "we have met the enemy and he is us" may be a little too close for comfort. As cofounder of the Empower Program, which teaches kids to stop violence, Wiseman works with more than 10,000 children annually; she knows her territory. She explains that she wants to help parents navigate "the unspoken rules of Perfect Parent World" so they can find their own "happy medium between overprotective parenting and frightened passivity." While she's used to seeing through most adolescent subterfuges, she's worked with enough parents to know their evil sides too—how they curse out school counselors, threaten to sue principals, exclude other parents at meetings and one-up other parents over their kids' college plans. Wiseman wants to show people how to behave better; she even includes sample scripts for difficult situations. Her bottom line: parents have to model good behavior if they want to end up with good kids. And since we all live in the same communities, good kids are in everyone's best interests."
Publisher's Weekly
starred review for Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads
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