The Lunch-Box Chronicles: Notes from the Parenting Underground (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375701702)

Child Magazine Best Book of the Year

"For me, parenting is like dieting. Every day, I wake up filled with resolve and good intentions, perfection in view, and every day I somehow stray from the path. The difference is with dieting, I usually make it to lunch. . . ."

With the candor and often hilarious outlook that have made her a beloved commentator on NPR, Marion Winik takes the reader on an unforgettable journey through modern parenthood, with all of its attendant anxieties and joys.
A single mother with two small boys, Winik knows exactly what she's talking about, from battles over breakfast and bedtime to the virtues of pre-packaged food and weightier issues like sex education and sibling rivalry. Part memoir and part survival guide, The Lunch-Box Chronicles is an engaging philosophy of parenting from a staunch realist, who knows that kids and their parents both will inevitably fall far short of perfection, and that a "good enough mom" really is, in fact, good enough.

Author: Marion Winik
ISBN-10: 0375701702
ISBN-13: 9780375701702
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 11/02/1999
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.60w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 10/03/1999 pg. 32