What do you think of this book? (baby, parents, children)
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What do you think? Do you agree with Zacharias, who says:
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The violent language of "Go the F*** to Sleep" is not the least bit funny, when one considers how many neglected children fall asleep each night praying for a parent who'd care enough to hold them, nurture them and read to them.
I do have to object with her next sentence, which is:
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You know, like all those parents depicted in all those beautifully illustrated storybooks.
To me, that's just schmaltz. I grew up reading fairy tales, among other books, and I still have all the collections I had when I was a kid. I'm sure many people have read the Brothers Grimm and their grisly tales, which only resemble the happy Disney movies we all have watched. Villains were always being rolled downhill in barrels full of spikes or thrown into pits of vipers. Earlier Cinderella stories do not end happily for the stepsisters, whose eyes are picked out by birds.
What do you think about this book? Hilarious and satirical or vulgar and unfunny? What do you think about Zacharias's statement (in the video) that, "I'll admit that I don't understand the level of frustration that would propel a parent, any parent, to think in that terminology toward children. ... I think that there's a coarseness in our society today that has reached a level of just unprecedented coarseness"?
I have heard of the book and actually want to read it. I just keep forgetting to get it. I think it sounds funny. Of course I have a very strange sense of humor.
I am also one of those people who has two conversations with people when I am frustrated. There is the conversation that I am actually having and one I have only in my head. The title of the book reminds me a bit of the second conversation I would have.
I don't use the (offensive) language that they would use, but I can kind of change the language to more tame language as I read. I am also someone who is not easily offended, so maybe that is why the book doesn't seem offensive to me.
I have heard of the book and actually want to read it. I just keep forgetting to get it. I think it sounds funny. Of course I have a very strange sense of humor.
I am also one of those people who has two conversations with people when I am frustrated. There is the conversation that I am actually having and one I have only in my head. The title of the book reminds me a bit of the second conversation I would have.
I don't use the (offensive) language that they would use, but I can kind of change the language to more tame language as I read. I am also someone who is not easily offended, so maybe that is why the book doesn't seem offensive to me.
I was just going to write such a similar thing that I thought I'd just say "I agree"
To the best of my knowledge, the book is meant in fun, expressing the frustration that every sleep deprived parent (regardless of their choice of language) experiences in their own head while raising their children. I have a hard time taking criticisms such as Zacharias' too seriously.
I was just going to write such a similar thing that I thought I'd just say "I agree"
To the best of my knowledge, the book is meant in fun, expressing the frustration that every sleep deprived parent (regardless of their choice of language) experiences in their own head while raising their children. I have a hard time taking criticisms such as Zacharias' too seriously.
Bingo.
It's not language that I use (ok..at least out loud) but I can remember the frustration of being exhausted, wanting to spend some time having an adult conversation with my husband or watching a show or whatever and thinking that DS or DD would NEVER go to sleep. I think someone needs to lighten up. For goodness sake, not laughing about something does not help all the awful things in the world.
Part of me is curious to read a book with such a title however I am not sure I should.
We would never have a book with that name in our house ever.
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) but I can remember the frustration of being exhausted, wanting to spend some time having an adult conversation with my husband or watching a show or whatever and thinking that DS or DD would NEVER go to sleep. I think someone needs to lighten up. For goodness sake, not laughing about something does not help all the awful things in the world. 
