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postheadericon The Bad Mother's Revenge

The Bad Mother’s Revenge started out a few years ago as writing therapy after two bouts of post-natal depression and gradually morphed into a regular, weekly, broadcast on Saturday Breakfast, 720 ABC Perth radio that lasted from 2004-2007.

The Bad Mother’s Revenge is an anti-parenting book for all parents.  It’s especially for frazzled mothers with demanding children.  It tells the truth of how parents really feel about their children.  How we love our children dearly but will sell them on e-bay if we don’t get any peace and quiet.  That it’s OK to make horrendous, unforgivable mistakes like putting them in that evil concentration camp otherwise known as day-care or giving them chocolate Freddo-frogs if they eat their cauliflower and broccoli.

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postheadericon Death by Teenager

There’s as many wonderful, logical, educational and informative parenting books giving advice, support and help on how to raise a well-balanced teenager, as there are hormonal teenagers in fast cars, nits and lice in your local school and comatose teenagers sprawled out on the family couch.  These are truly marvellous books that instill faith in one’s parenting ability and give hope for their future.

Death by Teenager is not one of those books.

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