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Bare minimum parenting, the ultimate guide to not quite ruining your child, James Breakwell

eng

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non fiction

Bare minimum parenting

James Breakwell

the ultimate guide to not quite ruining your child

The slacker's guide to parenting from Twitter's most popular dad. Overachieving parents want you to believe the harder you work, the better your children your will turn out. That lie ends now. The truth is most kids end up remarkably unremarkable no matter what you do, so you might as well achieve mediocrity by the easiest possible route. In Bare Minimum Parenting, amateur parenting sort-of expert James Breakwell will teach you to stop worrying and embrace your child's destiny as devastatingly average. To get there, you'll have to overcome your kid, other parents, unnecessary sporting activity, broccoli, and yourself. Everyone will try to make your life more difficult than necessary. Honestly, by reading this far, you're already trying too hard. But don't stop now. You're exactly the kind of person who needs this book

A call to inaction -- Your child is uniquely unoriginal -- You won't make a difference -- Fending off the mob -- The wrong time to have a kid -- Subtraction by multiplication -- Space not to kill each other -- Take a picture : it'll last longer -- Their eyes only -- Schooled -- Benched -- Imperfect attendance -- Screened out -- Rules are rules (unless they're hard to enforce) -- Food fight -- Dressing your child for survival -- Early endings -- Making up history -- The point of no return -- Acknowledgments -- About the author