{"id":1543,"date":"2019-06-20T15:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T21:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2019-06-02T10:14:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T16:14:51","slug":"book-how-to-traumatize-your-children-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/20\/book-how-to-traumatize-your-children-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: How to Traumatize Your Children (2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1381969682l\/13279015.jpg\" alt=\"How to Traumatize Your Children\" width=\"247\" height=\"346\">How to Traumatize Your Children: 7 Proven Methods to Help You Screw Up Your Kids Deliberately and with Skill<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\nYear: 2007<br \/>\nAuthor: Knock Knock<br \/>\nLength: 144 pages<\/p>\n<p>A friend of mine loaned me this book to help prepare me for the joys of parenting by using a slightly humorous slant on the standard parenting books that hand out helpful advice for parents to be. While I chuckled at some of the pages as I flipped through the book, once I sat down to read it, I almost immediately became depressed. Sure,&nbsp;<em>How to Traumatize Your Children<\/em>&nbsp;is tongue-in-cheek, but that only lasts through the first few chapters. Overall, it\u2019s virtually a traumatizing look into&nbsp;<em>actual<\/em>&nbsp;bad parenting instead of a comedic take on it.<\/p>\n<p>The moment that it hit me how real these \u201cmethods\u201d are was when I started to realize many parents inadvertently use them to their children\u2019s disadvantage. From my own experience, and observing the experiences of others, this book presents each one of these methods in somewhat horrifying detail. The only way this book gets away with it is by humorously implying that these parents and parents-to-be are purposely choosing to pursue these paths for rearing their children. It was amusing at first, but the effect quickly wore off. Perhaps if the suggested actions in this book were more extreme\u2014so as to be considered ridiculous\u2014then the humor might have lasted.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, this book is still useful in the sense that it paints a cautionary tale for parents to heed in raising their children. As a kind of \u201copposite guidebook,\u201d this book manages to highlight the ways that we can do a disservice to our children. Parents can fail their children in numerous ways, but being aware of these methods can certainly help stave off some of the needed therapy in the child\u2019s future. So, while this book\u2019s humor might fall flat in the first few pages, it still contains relatively relevant information for parents.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly useful information, even if the humor doesn\u2019t last, I give&nbsp;<em>How to Traumatize Your Children<\/em> 3.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\">&nbsp;<strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\">&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\"><\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Traumatize Your Children: 7 Proven Methods to Help You Screw Up Your Kids Deliberately and with Skill Year: 2007 Author: Knock Knock Length: 144 pages A friend of mine loaned me this book to help prepare me for the joys of parenting by using a slightly humorous slant on the standard parenting books [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,54],"tags":[176,1861,55,104,1860,1859,75,8,76],"class_list":["post-1543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-0-stars","category-book","tag-176","tag-7-proven-methods-to-help-you-screw-up-your-kids-deliberately-and-with-skill","tag-book","tag-comedy","tag-how-to-traumatize-your-children","tag-knock-knock","tag-parody","tag-review","tag-satire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1548,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions\/1548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}