MUDDLE YOUR WAY THROUGH BEING A GRANDPARENT: HOW TO FOOL PEOPLE INTO THINKING YOU’ RE A COMPETENT GRANNY OR GRAMPS!
Book ID/图书代码： 00530014B76128
English Summary/英文概要： Aimed at today’s generation of grandparents who refuse to be treated as befuddled old dears, this award-worthy book will take you through a hilarious series of scientifically questionable quizzes, flowcharts, role-playing exercises, checklists and celebrity advice.
Worried you might not be a competent gran or gramps? Well, don’t panic! Yet. This will arm you with the essential tips and tricks the so-called experts don’t dare to tell you.
Find out:
• What to do if your grandchild is ugly.
• Ways to inform your daughter she’s a hopeless mum.
• Which illnesses to fake to get out of babysitting.
• Simple ways to make your war stories more exciting.
• What happens when grannies go evil.
• How to spot if you’re losing your memory.
Of course, you could read a normal book on grandparenting, full of nice, fluffy ways to bond with your grandchild and Oprah-inspired guff on modern child-rearing. Yes, it might make you a better grandparent. But at what cost?
Your children have an agenda here, and you need to understand what it is. Even now, they are plotting ways to exploit your energy, money and digestive biscuits.
With this book, the fight back begins . . .
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 亲爱的新一代祖父母们, 你们是否对于隔代教育有着不小的困惑呢？现在，这本弥足珍贵的育儿宝典终于横空出世啦！它将带你踏上一段令人捧腹、 欢乐无比的奇妙亲子之旅。
还在担心你不能成为一个能干的外公或外婆? 好吧, 大家千万别慌! 这本书将会为您奉上那些所谓的专家绝对不敢告诉你的必备育儿小技巧和小窍门。
打开它，您将会发现……
如何应对您顽劣无比的小孙子
如何告知您的女儿她是一个不成功的妈妈
让您摆脱“带孩子”厄运的小招数
让您的睡前故事更精彩的简单小妙招
当老伴脾气变差，该怎么办
如何发现您的记忆力正在衰退
当然, 你也可以阅读一本普通的讲述隔代教育的图书, 里面充满着美好、华而不实的与你的孙辈搞好关系的方法、以及论当代养儿育女方面的奥普拉式的“经典语录”。是的, 它可能会让你变成一个更好的祖（父）母。但这样做的代价又是什么呢?
在这里，您的孩子会有一张代办清单, 您需要了解它上面写着什么。即使是现在, 他们也在“策划”着如何榨干你的精力、金钱等等。
现在，反击的时刻到了……(Susie)
Awards/获奖情况：“Rude, crude and perfect for all dads to be… Hilarious!” - Practical Parenting
About the Author/作者介绍： Paul Merrill先生是伦敦大名鼎鼎的育儿专家。由他所编写的童书《救命！一只北极熊吃了我的头！》一经出版，立即受到众多小粉丝的热烈欢迎！他曾在英国和澳大利亚从事杂志编辑的工作，现在是一名全职作家。他的最新作品——《为人父母乐趣多》即将于明年由Random House Australia出版。
生活中，Paul Merrill是三个男孩的父亲, 和大多数的年轻爸爸一样，他也经常为孩子们的教育问题而伤透脑筋。为了写好这2本书，Paul Merrill花了三年多的时间，每天把与孩子们的点滴故事都记录下来，并分享了很多他的切身感悟和心得体会，可谓是每一位父母的必备育儿圣经！！！
Merrill now writes full-time. His next books, comedy guides to grandparenting and fatherhood, are to be published by Random House Australia next year.
Paul Merrill is a father of three boys and has learned the hard way about all the pratfalls and textbook errors that most fathers make. To thoroughly research this book, he made most of them himself and is now pitied by everyone who knows him and, more crucially, by his children.
Format:电子手稿
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