All Joy and No Fun

You have to wonder why, when you get married, everyone encourages you to have kids. While you might have an occasional enjoyable moment, you'll also be in for a world of hurt. Kids are hard. Raising them is a challenge where most of the rewards are delayed. Sure, parenting books are usually about parenting your children, but this book takes the focus away from kids and put it right on the parents. New York magazine writer Jennifer Senior looks at the many ways in which having children reshape their parents’ lives, whether it changes a marriage, their jobs, their habits, their hobbies, their friendships, or their internal senses of self.

Senior writes in All Joy and No Fun of the "experiencing self" vs the "remembering self", and this notion can be freeing for many parents; liberating you from the constant parenting guilt of sacrificing yourself and your time for your child. In the end, Senior writes an ending meaning sentence: “Mothering and fathering aren’t just things we do. Being a mother or being a father is who we are”. It absolutely a good book to enjoy.

Link to buy: www.amazon.com/All-Joy-No-Fun-Parenthood/dp/B01L9E1R66