Summary of Jennifer Senior's All Joy and No Fun

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#1 Minnesota’s Early Childhood Family Education program is extremely popular and unique to the state. It allows parents to leave their kids with professionals for 60 blissful minutes, when they become grown-ups again.

#2 Parenthood is the least happy period of adult life, according to studies. The autonomy that parents once took for granted has deserted them, and they are now burdened by children and a lack of freedom.

#3 Having children enlarges your life in innumerable ways, but it also disrupts your autonomy in ways you never anticipated. That’s where this book begins: with a dissection of those reconfigured lives and an attempt to explain why they look and feel the way they do.

#4 The most dreaded parental punishment is making parents sleep deprivation. But most parents have no idea which type they are until their kids come along: those who handle it fairly well, those who sort of fall apart, and those who respond catastrophically.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 2, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822500785

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Contents

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Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Minnesota’s Early Childhood Family Education program is extremely popular and unique to the state. It allows parents to leave their kids with professionals for 60 blissful minutes, when they become grown-ups again.

#2

Parenthood is the least happy period of adult life, according to studies. The autonomy that parents once took for granted has deserted them, and they are now burdened by children and a lack of freedom.

#3

Having children enlarges your life in innumerable ways, but it also disrupts your autonomy in ways you never anticipated. That’s where this book begins: with a dissection of those reconfigured lives and an attempt to explain why they look and feel the way they do.

#4

The most dreaded parental punishment is making parents sleep deprivation. But most parents have no idea which type they are until their kids come along: those who handle it fairly well, those who sort of fall apart, and those who respond catastrophically.

#5

The emotional consequences of sleep deprivation are also powerful enough to have earned their own analysis. In a poll of parents, those who had six hours of sleep or less were in a different league of unhappiness than those who had seven hours of sleep.

#6

The most common urge parents try to fight is the urge to sleep. But what else do they try to fight. The most obvious answer is the urge to yell, which is equally as upsetting for parents.

#7

Children are sweet, beautiful, and adored, but they have all the characteristics that are identified as mad when they are found too brazenly in adults. Young children have too much desire and too little organization.

#8