Guy Delisle knows all the worst parenting techniques
Guy Delisle, the author of Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City andA User’s Guide to Neglectful Parenting, shares hilarious new comic strips that pay tribute to all the ways
parents can drive their kids crazy, and vice versa, inThe Owner’s Manual to Terrible Parenting.
Slipping grammar lessons into bedtime stories, being challenged by difficult toys, and pretending to forget you even have a son: it’s all in a day’s work for Delisle. InThe Owner’s
Manual, Delisle doesn’t hesitate to make a slightly bumbling, fictionalized version of himself the butt of the joke, though his children often contribute zingy repartee and laugh-out-loud
insight in the stories on display here.
The Owner’s Manual is the perfect antidote to frustrating car rides filled with "Are we there yet?" and epic battles over homework. Delisle’s effortless pacing and witty punch lines
reign supreme here, making each vignette zip along to its conclusion.
