Naptime Is the New Happy Hour
And Other Ways Toddlers Turn Your Life Upside Down
By Stefanie Wilder-Taylor (Simon & Schuster, $14.99 paper)
Stefanie Wilder-Taylor injects humor into life with a willful but wonderful toddler in “Naptime Is the New Happy Hour.” Wilder-Taylor takes satiric aim at the everyday pitfalls of parenthood.
1. Forget supplies? … “Chances are your pal will be happy to hook you up with juice boxes and Pull-Ups, but if you make a habit out of this you will be tagged as a Mommy Mooch.”
2. “An afternoon with the wrong mom can feel like spending two hours on the Stairmaster with the TV stuck on a George Lopez marathon.”
3. Let kids watch TV. “It can prevent overworked, on-the-verge-of-hysteria parents from becoming … unhinged.”
4. “All the time-outs in the world won’t stop your child from being a moody, irrational tyrant one day and more charming than Patrick Dempsey the next.”
5. Don’t over-schedule kids. “Save the Blackberries, Palm Pilots and other PDAs until at least their fifth birthday.”