How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids
Recommended by Nicole Cliffe in Slate
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A Red Tricycle Best Baby and Toddler Parenting Book of the Year
One of Mother magazine's favorite parenting books of the Year
How Not To Hate Your Husband After Kids tackles the last taboo subject of parenthood: the startling, white-hot fury that new (and not-so-new) mothers often have for their mates. After Jancee Dunn had her baby, she found that she was doing virtually all the household chores, even though she and her husband worked equal hours. She asked herself: How did I become the 'expert' at changing a diaper?
Many expectant parents spend weeks researching the best crib or safest car seat, but spend little if any time thinking about the titanic impact the baby will have on their marriage - and the way their marriage will affect their child.
Enter Dunn, her well-meaning but blithely unhelpful husband, their daughter, and her boisterous extended family, who show us the ways in which outmoded family patterns and traditions thwart the overworked, overloaded parents of today.
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About the Author
Jancee Dunn is the columnist for Well at the New York Times. She is also a New York Times bestselling author of eight books, including How Not To Hate Your Husband After Kids, which was published in twelve languages, and the essay collection Why Is My Mother Getting a Tattoo?, a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor. She has written about health for two decades in publications such as Vogue, O, The Oprah Magazine, and Health. She lives in New Jersey with her husband, the writer Tom Vanderbilt, and their daughter.