The Lunch-Box Chronicles: Notes from the Parenting Underground

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 shes 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.