Put Your Big Girl Panties On and Deal with It [Paperback]

Roz Van Meter (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2007

With this insightful, touching, and often hilarious guide, Roz takes you from Training Pants straight through to Big Girl Panties, with plenty of laughs and lots of valuable advice along the way. Rife with deeply personal, perhaps slightly embarrassing and often hysterical personal stories from the author herself, Put Your Big Girl Panties On and Deal With It is the guidebook for real women ready to take charge of their own lives.

Inside, discover:

--How to shuck those procrastination panties: Action Antidotes to the Top 10 Procrastination Perpetuator
--How to untwist your knickers: Stressbusting for the rest of us
--Aunties in your panties: What we can learn from the Big Girl Panty-Wearers who have gone before us
--Big girl Valentine panties: Plenty of romance revivers and passion primers
--Bodacious Beauty Britches: How to celebrate your unique gorgeousness

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About the Author

Roz Van Meter is a licensed marriage, family and sex therapist, and a certified Life Coach. She has counseled 10,000 people in 28 years of private practice. She has been featured in USA Weekend and Family Circle, and is a source for Cosmo and Redbook. She lives in Dallas, Texas.

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Introduction

Life itself is the proper binge.
-Julia Child

Becky and her husband Greg were walking through the mall one day, heading for a movie, when a girl walked toward them wearing a T-shirt that said, "Put your big girl panties on and deal with it!"
Greg laughed. "Somebody ought to write a book with that title."
Becky answered, "And I know just the person who could do it, my old buddy back in Dallas."
The movie they went to see featured Barbra Streisand as a flamboyant red-headed sex therapist named Roz. She was a hoot. As they walked out, Becky looked up at Greg and said sweetly, "Did I happen to mention that my buddy back in Dallas is a flamboyant red-headed sex therapist named Roz?"
They phoned me with the idea, came down from Colorado to talk about it, and the next thing I knew, I was writing this book.
Big Girl Panties is a story salad. As books will do, it took on a life of its own, informing me as I wrote. I'd started with the attitude of "Big Girl Panties are mature and capable, Little Girl Britches are childish and ineffective." Before long, though, I rediscovered an enormous truth: they are both wonderful and amazing, when worn at the right times.

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.; 1 edition (June 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1402208820
• ISBN-13: 978-1402208829
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 6.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #246,949 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Put Your Big Girl Panties On and Deal with It, May 30, 2007

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Joyce Reynolds (Olympia, WA) - See all my reviews
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I don't know a woman from 19 to 90 who would't learn something from this book . . . and have a good time doing it. Understanding when you need to be your grown up self and when it's okay to let your little kid loose are essential life skills. Roz Van Meter helps you to learn them with some revealing anecdotes and a lot of laughs along the way. After reading it, I ordered a copy for my brother, who has 25 and 38 year old daughters. Some good-natured insight seemed to be in order, and I feel sure that he's going to be intrigued by anything having to do with panties.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Big Girl Panties, June 22, 2007

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Mary Martin "book fan" (Dallas, Tx. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Put Your Big Girl Panties On and Deal with It (Paperback)

Roz, a fine teacher with the sooul of a sage has given us ahelpful treatise with a road map that is fun to read and that we can become our independent self. Mary Martin

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A good read and a real winner!, June 15, 2007

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Martha G. Laster "Cuzzin/friend" (Richardson TX USA) - See all my reviews
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Our slightly outrageous, always charming, often hilarious, and always right- on Roz has done it again. "Big Girl Panties" is a delightful read, filled with humor, good advice, and her usual "down-home Texas good sense for all us gals, no matter age. Her relating of Old Pal's feelings on "spoiling" grandchildren has been quoted to a beloved grandson who thought he was spoiled - not so - only "indulged" as Old Pal did his granddaughters. Thanks, Roz, for your insight and your ability to pass it on. Martha Goodman Laster, Richardsn TX