I'm Okay, You're a Brat! : Setting the Priorities Straight and Freeing You From the Guilt and Mad Myths of Parenthood
Author: Susan Jeffers
List Price: $21.95
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ISBN: 1580631398
Publisher: Renaissance Books (19 May, 2000)
Sales Rank: 147,926
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 out of 5
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Rating: 5 out of 5
FANTASTIC
This book is controversial and will strike at the emotions of most who read it. It seems most things to do with parenting fall into this category! I felt its main attempt was to bring parents together in a "lets not lay blame or guilt, lets tell the truth about kids and parenting and try and help one another". As a mother, I mourn my freedom, my privacy and my hard-earned dollars. But I mostly regret that everyone told me how amazingly fulfilling and fun mothering is. For years I wondered what was wrong with ME if everyone else enjoyed this unique experience 24/7! I asked my partner how he would feel if he had to be at work 24/7, no pay, no holidays, loads of guilt, no pats on the back and constantly dealing with people who argue, make a mess and have no respect for privacy. His answer: "I'd quit". My answer: "I can't". For anyone considering this 'job', read the book and don't say I didn't tell you!!
Rating: 1 out of 5
I'm Okay, You're a Brat
Yet another fine example of how parents today do not wish to take responsibility for their own behavior, much less for their children's . Bad parenting = bad children. Period. Every day I see little girls looking very much like little women and boys acting like pimps, then I laugh when parents wonder why kids are having sex at 13 - oh, right, its music and video games. Well who's buying the clothes? Music? Video games? Or kids running amok in an inappropriate place while the parents carry on as if nothing were amiss. Who is teaching your child responsibility, manners, and respect if you as a parent are avoiding all of the above. Sure, go ahead and buy this trash, stick your head in the sand, and when you're 80 and wondering why your selfish bratty little kids became selfish bratty adults - think back to the teachings of this book and ask yourself if it was really in the best interest of kids or parents to publish this garbage. Irresponsible parents will eat this book up having finally found validation for their own selfish disrespectful method of "No Blame" parenting. Good parents may for a moment try to believe it be sound advice so as to find some relief from the often daunting (in the end rewarding) task of raising a decent human being, but their conscience will win over in the end.
Rating: 2 out of 5
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I'm a divorce attorney in Columbus, Ohio. In the last ten years, I have heard Dr. Jeffer's "if the parent is happier, the child will be happier" argument used to support decisions to divorce, decisions to remove children from the state in which the other parent resides for the removing parents' convenience, and decisions to simply not work with the other parent for the child's benefit because it is too inconvenient or frustrating. This "me, myself, and I" mentality is not what parenting is all about. Similar Products
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