I Want My Epidural Back: Adventures in Mediocre Parenting
Written by Karen Alpert
Narrated by Karen Alpert
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
Now that I’m a mom, I know the most painful part isn’t getting something giant through your hooha. It’s having a real live child.
If you are the kind of mom who shapes your kiddo’s organic quinoa into reproductions of the Mona Lisa, do not read this book. If you stayed up past midnight to create posters for your PTO presidential campaign, do not read this book. If you look down your nose at parents who have Domino’s pizza on speed dial, do not read this book.
But if you are the kind of parent who accidentally goes ballistic on your rugrats every morning because they won’t put their shoes on and then you feel super guilty about it all day so you take them to McDonalds for a special treat but really it’s because you opened up your freezer and panicked because you forgot to buy more frozen pizzas, then absolutely read this book.
I WANT MY EPIDURAL BACK is a celebration of mediocre parents and how awesome they are and how their kids love them just as much as children with perfect parents. Karen Alpert’s honest but hilarious observations, stories, quips and pictures will have you nodding your head and peeing in your pants. Or on the toilet if you’re smart and read it there.
Karen Alpert
Karen Alpert loves her family, chocolate and writing, in that order. So when she’s not taking care of her kiddos or drinking Hershey’s syrup straight from the bottle, she’s probably working on her blog Baby Sideburns where she entertains hundreds of thousands of stressed out parents every day. She is a New York Times bestselling author and also an expert nagger who relentlessly badgers her husband until he finally breaks down and does what she wants.
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Reviews for I Want My Epidural Back
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is just a fun book. I laughed a lot. I saw myself doing some of these things.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5If anything else, the reader will leave this book feel like maybe she isn't the worst mother of all time. Not that Karen Alpert is either. She tells of the upsides and downsides of parenting and all the fun in between. By turns colorful and slightly bizarre, Alpert's writing is humble, fun, and loving. Because at the end of the day, parenting IS all about love. RIGHT?
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hilarious!