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What happens to Queen Bees and Wannabes when they grow up?
Even the most well-adjusted parents can experience peer pressure and conflicts with other adults that make them become they’re back seventh grade. In Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads, Rosalind Wiseman gives us the tools to handle difficult situations involving teachers and other parents with grace. Reassuring, funny, and unfailingly honest, Wiseman reveals:
• Why PTA meetings and Back-to-School nights tap into parents’ deepest insecurities
• How exactly to recognize the archetypal moms and dads—from Caveman Dad to Hovercraft Mom
• How so when to part of and come out of your child’s conflicts with other children, parents, teachers, or coaches
• How exactly to interpret the code phrases other parents use to avoid (or provoke) confrontation
• Why too many well-meaning dads take a seat on the sidelines, and exactly how vital it is that they intensify to the plate
• How to proceed and say when the playing field becomes an arena for folks to bully and dominate other kids and adults
• How exactly to have respectful yet honest conversations with other parents about sex and drugs when your values are in conflict
• The way the way you handle parties, risky behavior, and academic performance impacts your child
• How unspoken assumptions about race, religion, and other hot-button subjects sabotage parents’ ability to work together
Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads is filled up with the kind of true stories that made Wiseman’s New York Times bestselling book Queen Bees & Wannabes impossible to place down. There are tales of hardworking parents with whom any of us can identify, along with tales of outrageously bad parents—the kind most of us have to reckon with. For example, what now ? when parents donate a huge amount of cash to a school and their child is promptly transferred into the honors program–while your son with better grades doesn’t make the cut? How about the mother who helps her daughter compose poison-pen e-mails to yours? And what do you tell the parent-coach who screams at your child when the team is losing? Wiseman offers practical advice on avoiding the most common parenting “land mines” and useful scripts to help you navigate difficult but necessary conversations.
Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads is vital reading for parents today. It provides us the tools to become wiser, more relaxed parents–and the inspiration to speak out, act according to your values, show humility, and set the kind of example that will make a genuine difference in our children’s lives.
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