{"id":36160,"date":"2014-10-10T09:53:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T13:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=36160"},"modified":"2015-12-02T14:31:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T18:31:40","slug":"even-more-bad-parenting-advice-by-guy-delisle-translated-by-helge-dascher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/even-more-bad-parenting-advice-by-guy-delisle-translated-by-helge-dascher\/","title":{"rendered":"Even More Bad Parenting Advice by Guy Delisle, translated by Helge Dascher"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Even<\/a>Even when we old folks have only the\u00a0noblest intentions, our parenting skills don’t always live up to the ‘skill’ part, ahem. Canadian French comic master Guy Delisle<\/a> humorously\u00a0mines his own follies, and gives us the perfect opportunity to keep laughing with him, and even more so, at\u00a0ourselves. If you giggled over last year’s\u00a0A User’s Guide to Neglectful Parenting<\/a><\/em>, you’ll surely continue to guffaw (even as you commiserate) through\u00a0this follow-up.<\/p>\n

In case of any confusion, allow me to reveal right here that Nad\u00e8ge \u2013 Delisle’s partner\/girlfriend\/wife\/mother of his two young children (her monikers have changed throughout his various previous volumes<\/a>) \u2013 whose foreign postings with M\u00e9decins San Fronti\u00e8res<\/a>\/Doctors Without Borders<\/a>\u00a0inspired at least\u00a0two of his titles (Burma Chronicles<\/em><\/a> and Jerusalem<\/em><\/a>), is seemingly the single\u00a0voice of reason here. She doesn’t appear often\u00a0\u2013\u00a0more often, she\u00a0just needs to be alluded to \u2013 but the rest of the family is well aware\u00a0who really\u00a0speaks with authority.<\/p>\n

With Daddy in charge \u2013 especially when he’s trying to figure out the taxes, social security, and other such “bunch(es) of paperwork” \u2013 “life isn’t fair” and “math is really strange”\u00a0for first-grader Alice who’s trying to understand why number-counting includes\u00a0two 56s: “… 50, 51, 52, 56, 54, 55, and then 56 again, right?”\u00a0Who needs 53 anyway?\u00a0“That’s just how it is,” Daddy assures Alice.<\/p>\n

Daddy-in-charge-when-Mommy-doesn’t-come-home-for-lunch means more sushi, chocolate ice cream popsicles, eating in front of the TV watching cartoons, and playing PS3 instead of going back to school. That makes him “the best dad in the universe,” of course!<\/p>\n

So his Sunday-night homework gathering skills reveal a few too many inappropriate details, his explanation about street people results in mistaken identity, his tooth-pulling follow-through is a bit suspect, his nighttime assurances turn out too bloody, and he’s not above wreaking revenge for the sake of his wronged child. His penchant for manga and early cartoons (not meant for kids) might be stronger than recognizing his child’s\u00a0educational needs. He’s\u00a0more worried about\u00a0Nad\u00e8ge’s disapproval than confronting sharks (wow!). And he blames himself for his son’s paranoia about punctuality, even as he attempts\u00a0to challenge\u00a0the ticking clock for them both … hurry, hurry!<\/p>\n

Vignette by vignette, Delisle’s comic observations have just enough truth to have us all nodding along. Those fantastical explanations (who needs logic?), the occasional expletive we didn’t intend (promise!), the attempts to be fair always (whoops!), enforcing good behavior\u00a0(do as I say, not as I do!)\u00a0\u2013 you’ll recognize all your favorite\u00a0parental ploys. Not to mention the occasional slip-ups! That said, humans have been birthing babies\u00a0since we arrived on earth … how hard can setting the right examples be, right? Hahahahaha! Silly, delusional me!<\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2014 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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