Will The Real Perfect Parent Please Stand Up?
The Perfect Baby Handbook: A Guide for Excessively Motivated Parents by Dale Hrabi (Harper Collins) is brilliantly funny – hands down the funniest I’ve read (and I just may have read them all). Addressing the phenomena of the over-the-top yuppy parent and spoofing the run of the mill how-to parenting book, Canadian born Hrabi pokes satirical fun at…well, everything about parenthood. He leaves no stone left unturned. Need help naming baby? Check IKEA’s product names. He’ll teach you how to babyproof the planet, perform an imbalance awareness drill, hire dead entertainers for your baby’s first birthday, adopt the ultimate schedule (down to the minute), induce “advanced slumber”, and colour code poop. The artwork is terrific – as funny as the text, perhaps – and the entire book makes me want to hang out with Dale and laugh and myself and everyone else who has ever spawned. If you know someone on bedrest awaiting their first child, this is THE book you need to buy for them. If it doesn’t make them laugh, they need some major therapy. Bedrest or not, I think this book would make an awesome addition to any baby gift.
If you need some more entertainment, check out the Perfect Baby blog.
And by the way – if you’re into competitive breastfeeding? I totally win.
Win it! We’ve got this very book just for you. Or you. Or maybe you. To enter, just leave a comment on this post before noon mst on Friday, April 24, 2009.
CONTEST CLOSED & WINNER EMAILED
April 22nd, 2009 at 1:53 am
My hubby and I would love to have THE book! Thanks for a chance.
April 22nd, 2009 at 7:30 am
my son needs this book
April 22nd, 2009 at 7:55 am
I’d love to win
April 22nd, 2009 at 7:56 am
I am interested in winning this book. Sounds hilarious and like a fun summer read for me, a struggling perfect mommy “wanna-be” !! HAha.
April 22nd, 2009 at 8:11 am
While I am not a parent I tend to my nieces and nephews often enough that I have to “be ” a parent to them. I have 6 younger brothers and sisters and 5 of them are parents and they all want to be the perfect parent.
April 22nd, 2009 at 9:00 am
He he I want it! Thanks!!
April 22nd, 2009 at 9:46 am
this book will really help out new parents
April 22nd, 2009 at 9:57 am
I need this cause I have a feeling its gonna be hard for my daughter and SIL when they do have their first baby! He’s a bit of a perfectionist!
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:04 am
I keep hearing about this book! It sounds so funny
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:11 am
sign me up
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:26 am
I could use this book. I’ve been blogging about my quest to be super-mom. Needless to say I’m not even close to being supermom, I can’t even keep my house clean. This book might help me realize I don’t have to be perfect.
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:30 am
Oh and competetive breast-feeding? How do you win that? That might be something I have a chance at being “supermom” at.
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:51 am
Thanks! I would love to use this book.
April 22nd, 2009 at 11:07 am
I would love this.
April 22nd, 2009 at 12:54 pm
sounds like A must read!
April 22nd, 2009 at 1:08 pm
i’d love to be the winner
April 22nd, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Sounds like it is a hoot! Would love to read it.
April 22nd, 2009 at 3:25 pm
I would love to win this book!!
April 22nd, 2009 at 3:33 pm
I’veheard so much about this book-would love to win it!
April 22nd, 2009 at 5:18 pm
I would love to read this, and better yet, win it.
Michelle
April 22nd, 2009 at 5:53 pm
would love to win this
April 22nd, 2009 at 6:42 pm
Sounds like a really cool book. Thanks for the giveaway.
April 22nd, 2009 at 6:42 pm
I am a subscriber.
April 22nd, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Great read, great contest!
April 22nd, 2009 at 7:35 pm
this looks likea great read!
April 22nd, 2009 at 9:51 pm
can’t wait to get this! I need a laugh!
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:06 pm
This would be great for my friend expecting her first baby.
April 23rd, 2009 at 12:20 pm
THank you for a great giveaway! This would be a great read. tHank you
tatertot374@sbcglobal.net
April 23rd, 2009 at 1:26 pm
looks like a good one!
April 23rd, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Happy Spring!
April 23rd, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Laughter while expecting is the only way to get through those nine months. Great find!
April 23rd, 2009 at 7:44 pm
I’d love to win this.
April 23rd, 2009 at 11:12 pm
Looks like a book with a sense of humor…I’ll admit to being one of those parents, though.
April 24th, 2009 at 1:20 am
Love to win this sign me up!
April 24th, 2009 at 1:21 am
I would love to read this handbook.
April 24th, 2009 at 4:36 am
I would love to win this as a gift to my son and his wife as they are first time parents of a beautiful little girl. Thanks for having this contest.
April 24th, 2009 at 8:32 am
please enter me
April 24th, 2009 at 8:58 am
sounds like fun:)
April 24th, 2009 at 9:48 am
Looks like a great book for new parents
April 24th, 2009 at 11:43 am
Please enter me into the contest. Thanks!
April 24th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
Hah, sounds really interesting!
April 24th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
My sister-in-law is on bedrest til late next month awaiting her baby girl. This book would certainly cheer her up!
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