Waiting for Birdy, A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family

by Catherine Newman

For ages Parents

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If you are the adoring parent of a toddler or preschooler, or perchance expecting your second child, allow us to introduce you to your new best friend. That's how we think you'll come to feel about Catherine Newman during the hours of reading pleasure you have ahead of you in the form of this little book. She'll not only be your best friend, she'll be your nuttiest, funniest, and most tender-hearted friend. She'll be the friend who has been through it all, the friend who is right there with you when, say, your three-year-old up and decides never to take a bath again. Or when, after two perfectly happy weeks at preschool, your little one suddenly can't bear to think about parting from you without tears. This friend spares you nary a gruesome detail of her battles with morning sickness, newborn poop, toddler constipation, "the barfing flu," all manner of illnesses and injuries real and imagined, and the many other joys of family life -- but you wouldn't want her to because she has you laughing so hard. Does her "hippie parenting style" resemble what goes on at your house? Perhaps not entirely. But what does resonate, deeply, are her efforts to become, every day, a better parent, and to pay close attention to (and so skillfully record) her childrens' precious early years.

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