Preschool Confidential

by Sandi Kahn Shelton

Book Overview

"Laugh-out-loud comments and astute remarks will help lighten any mother's load and keep things in perspective...This is a refreshing look at child rearing, written in short sections that can be read... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031225458X
• ISBN13: 9780312254582
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

A Great Read

What a funny funny look at being the mother of a three year old. She has done a great job capturing the phases and stages that leark in dark corners just when you think the terrible twos are over! Although I think Shelton is a little down on Motherhood sometimes the book is non-the-less a great read. Easy to pick up and put down, with some out loud laughing involved. It would make a great gift for the three year old birthday boy or girl's mom!

You don't even need your own kids to love this book!

This book entertained me non-stop through an 800-mile train-and-bus trip, and I don't even have children. I really couldn't put it down. It's as funny as Please Don't Eat the Daisies, and as engagingly written. Someone should make a TV series from it, or a movie. This one's a winner.

Just How Funny Your Kids Really Are

My husband and I are reading this book out loud to each other each night after we tuck our kids in bed. We usually end up laughing so hard we almost fall off of the couch. It's good medicine, that book. Sandi takes situations that you may never have thought of as being funny and opens your eyes to just how hilarious it all really is. The fact that she's been through the preschool stage three times herself gives her vast experience to draw from and write about.Mostly, I feel like I am reading a comic strip about our own family life because the things she describes are the very things we experience over and over again and never even thought to ask anybody about. It does wonders for my attitude.I think anyone who is in the process of raising a preschooler NEEDS to read this book. It's like the glass of wine at the end of the day, and perspective for the days to come.

Couldn't Stop Laughing!

What a delightful book! Funny takes on all of the parenting a preschooler traumas - makes you laugh, but makes you think, too. I wish I had a Mom like Sandi....and I hope all Mom's take a look at the crazies of their lives through Sandi's warm, hilarious, sparkling eyes. A GREAT book to give to pre-school parents or teachers.

What you can REALLY expect in the preschool years!

This book is laugh out loud funny! Unlike other books about our preschool aged children that give us milestones for development and tell us what children can and should be doing, PRESCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL illustrates what most children in this age group are actually doing (like naming their toothbrushes, putting forks in our briefcases, and wearing the McDonald's happy meal bucket as a hat). Sandi Kahn Shelton tells us what one can really expect from a preschooler and does so in such a humorous yet honest way with examples from her own life and the lives of real parents of real children. In addition, Ms. Shelton, ever sensitive to the realities of parents of preschool aged children, has organized the book in segments that are short and readable in small pockets of time. As good a stress reliever as a glass of wine at the end of a busy day, the anectdotes in this book are an elixir of relief. This is a super book for any parent, grandparent, or person who wants to know the excitement and challenge of the preschool aged child. For parents, the true stories in this book let you know that your child is not the only one who wants to take the waffle iron for show and tell or to entertain the possibility of eating rocks for supper. PRESCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL assures you once and for all, that you are not alone!