The only known cure for parents driven to distraction by all their parenting duties is to read Judy Gruen’s funny new book, Carpool Tunnel Syndrome: Motherhood as Shuttle Diplomacy (Heaven Ink Publishing, October 2000). Each of its 29 chapters provides comic relief for parenthood bugaboos. “Parlez Vous? Says Who?” questions the wisdom of trying to make kids learn Berber before they’ve outgrown Gerber, while “How Green Was My Checkbook” logs the iffy success of trying to save money by purchasing everything in five-gallon tubs at one of those supermarkets-on-steroids. “Pair of Dice, Lost” explains boys’ affinity for death-defying pranks while girls calmly play house, and “Tanks But No Tanks” chronicles the author’s attempt to provide her kids with low-maintenance pet fish, only to find the small aquatic creatures have the average life span of a soufflé.
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