Just Because Your Kids Drive You Insane...Doesn't Mean You Are A Bad Parent! [Paperback]

Lisa Barker (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 14, 2006

It's time to duck the flying mashed potatoes and get real about parenting and the modern domestic life with Lisa Barker. Laugh, cry, laugh some more, it's all about preserving sanity.

Based on the award-winning parenting humor column Jelly Mom(TM).

Editorial Reviews

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Lisa has a sense a humor that only a mom can truly understand! I laughed the entire way through this book and I highly recommend it to ANY mom! If you don't laugh while reading this book...you must have an honorary membership to the infamous "Parenting Police". Thanks to Lisa I now know that I really am NOT alone. --Anita DeFrank, MommysHelperOnline.com

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"Just Because Your Kids Drive You Insane..." is a generous and funny offering based on Ms. Barker's syndicated "Jelly Mom" columns, and her take on mothering her "kiddos" will leave you bouncing off the walls with laughter.

The appealing thing about Lisa Barker's sense of humor is that the joke is on her. She is the willing foil in this madcap menagerie and that's what makes it work.

You also know that under that acerbic layer of wit is a mother who loves her children and wouldn't trade them for a million bucks. Her kiddos are what she is about.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 220 pages
• Publisher: Lulu.com (September 14, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1411674189
• ISBN-13: 978-1411674189
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,302,917 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Lisa Barker lives in Greenfield, California with her husband, four children and nine cats.

Her first two books, "Just Because Your Kids Drive You Insane...Doesn't Mean You're a Bad Parent!" and "Before I Had Kids I Was a Size 9" are based on her award-winning parenting humor column, Jelly Mom(TM) (2004-2009).

"Inheritance," an inspirational love story, is her debut novel.

Visit this author's blog at: http://www.lisabarker.com

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5.0 out of 5 stars THE TORCH IS PASSED, May 17, 2008

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This review is from: Just Because Your Kids Drive You Insane...Doesn't Mean You Are A Bad Parent! (Paperback)

For those of you that have missed Erma Bombeck, the torch has been passed to Lisa Barker. As a mother of five young children and assorted pets, Lisa is never short of hilarious antics to write about. Any mother will be able to recognize herself and laugh along with Lisa over the ups and downs of motherhood. If you enjoyed Erma, you'll love Lisa Barker's humorous reflections. If laughter is good medicine, this book is a full prescription!

5.0 out of 5 stars Motherhood is a laughing matter, May 4, 2009

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This review is from: Just Because Your Kids Drive You Insane...Doesn't Mean You Are A Bad Parent! (Paperback)

At Lisa Barker's house, every day is Mother's Day. But that doesn't mean Lisa is getting cards, flowers, and gifts.

What she gets is migraine-flavored shopping trips, toy-cluttered rooms, bad hair, a kidney infection, and loads of laundry.

What you'll get is loads of laughs when you read Lisa Barker's book, "Just Because Your Kids Drive You Insane...Doesn't Mean You Are A Bad Parent", which is published by Lulu.

Lisa Barker lovingly and accurately refers to herself as Jelly Mom. You can imagine where that moniker is rooted considering she is the mother, chef, and maid to five children, ranging in age from bawling to sloppy to argumentative. Throw in a husband, a dog, and nine cats and you have one big hysterical family.

"Just Because Your Kids Drive You Insane..." is a generous and funny offering based on Ms. Barker's syndicated "Jelly Mom" columns, and her take on mothering her "kiddos" will leave you bouncing off the walls with laughter.

She doesn't stop at parenting, however. She is more than that. She is a woman and here's what she has to say on that subject:

"I don't know where people got the impression that women were the weaker sex, especially when you consider that women today (as always) gestate, carry around a living, developing baby, go through intense labor, give birth and the next day they are nursing a baby while they vacuum, make grocery lists, chaperone toddlers, negotiate with their teenagers and order meat for the freezer all while standing over a hot stove cooking dinner."

The appealing thing about Lisa Barker's sense of humor is that the joke is on her. She is the willing foil in this madcap menagerie and that's what makes it work.

You also know that under that acerbic layer of wit is a mother who loves her children and wouldn't trade them for a million bucks. Her kiddos are what she is about.

"Just Because Your Kids Drive You Insane" would make a great Mother's Day gift. Every mother could slip easily between the pages of Lisa Barker's book and find a little bit of her own self in this treasure trove of classic comedy.

Lisa's column can be found online at [...] "Just Because Your Kids Drive You Insane" can be ordered online at [...]

Review by Wendel Potter
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April 22, 2006

Wendel Potter, Chronicler and Humorist, is a contributing comedy writer for Jay Leno and has also written for Joan Rivers, Phyllis Diller, and the Yakov Smirnoff Show.