CHAPTER 1: SERIOUSLY—WHAT IS THAT SMELL?!? (AND WHY WON’T IT GO AWAY?) Nobody warns you about the smells. Not the diapers. Not the...

PROLOGUE: PARENTING IS A DUMPSTER FIRE (BUT YOU GET BETTER AT NAVIGATING IT) Let’s just get this out of the way right now—parenting...

Before I became a parent, I used to think parents were the stupidest  people alive. As a teacher, I often joked with my students that once I met their parents, I knew exactly what was wrong with them (the students), as if meeting the degenerate humans who raised these insane nuisances somehow made the insanity and chaos in my classroom make sense. Then I became a parent, and oh, what a rude awakening that was! I owe nearly every parent of every student I ever taught some semb

Is your pre-teen suddenly moody, distant, and challenging everything you say? One minute they’re cuddling up on the couch, and the next they’re rolling their eyes so hard you’re worried they might strain a muscle. Sound familiar?

Routine, haha, what a funny word! Routine is just what we tell ourselves we have so that we think  we know what we are doing. For us...