Cool Mom on the Hot Seat

<I>In Cool Mom on the Hot Seat</I> Virginia Boyle Traver offers an entertaining account of raising a family today. Along with poignant and humorous descriptions spontaneous dialogue provides a continuous momentum to this series of slice-of-life sketches. As the children grow beyond their home and neighborhood the author moves from being on top of it all to wondering what will happen next.</p><P> <I>Cool Mom on the Hot Seat</I> shows what one family found that worked: time alone together at home where one-on-one chats in the kitchen are daily events and time in the outdoors around a campfire far away from the phone and computer. This portrayal of a real family growing with the adventure of the everyday rings with a natural universality.