Parenting Comedy

When the Devil comes to take him, Wakefield, a motivational speaker and architecture buff, isn't ready. He plies the Dark One with scotch and strikes a bargain: He, Wakefield, will take a year to search for an alternative life.

Kerri Louise is Mean Mommy! With her fearless and hilarious attitude toward modern motherhood, comic Kerri Louise tells all and never holds back. Truthful and funny, Mean Mommy attempts to balance her career in the comedy trenches and stay grounded while raising three boys.

In love as in comedy, timing is everything. One bad night doesn't mean it's time to quit. Have patience: great marriages, like a successful comedy career, take time. Turns out the cardinal rules of comedy have an uncanny resemblance to the "rules" of building a strong marriage. With humor and grace, writer and comedian Dani Klein Modisett shares a map for navigating your marriage through rough patches, bad jokes, and even nights when you bomb.

The loss of a loved one is tough enough, but when Regina Richards experiences the loss of her spouse of many decades, little does she expect the extraordinary sequence of events about to unfold. First, there is the mysterious whistling that comes from out of nowhere, followed by the black patent-leather dancing shoes that miraculously appear in her bedroom. (She doesn't dance.) And then come the visits from her dearly departed husband, to explain what it is like on the other side. Surely this would be enough for anyone to begin to think they were losing it.

"Meine Mutter ruft aus meiner Heimatstadt Freiburg an." So beginnt jede Folge der SWR3-Kolumne "Elternzeit" und der radioeins-Rubrik "Elternanrufe". Jetzt gibt es diese tiefgründige Konversationen der Generationen endlich als Hörbuch. Live und ungekürzt! Wie alle echten Berliner kommt Sebastian Lehmann eigentlich aus Süddeutschland. Deswegen telefoniert er oft mit seinen Eltern in der badischen Provinz. Dabei unterhalten sie sich über seine brotlose Kunst als so genannter Schriftsteller, Tiefkühlpizza als Hauptmahlzeit und warum immer noch keine Enkelkinder auf dem Weg sind.

Egal, ob man sich im Geburtsvorbereitungskurs mit dem Wegsingen von Senkwehen blamiert, sich beim Eltern-Kind-Turnen zu infernalischen Liedern über Gorillas mit Sonnenbrille verrenkt, ein Bachelor-Studium über die ergonomische Funktion von Tornistern absolviert oder einen Premium-Partyplaner bucht, weil man keine Kraft mehr hat, einen Marmorkuchen zu backen und drei Ballons aufzupusten: Es gibt eine Unmenge an Phasen der elterlichen Vollverzweiflung, die Sabine Bode in ihrem Anti-Ratgeber scharfzüngig und selbstironisch seziert.

LOL is a beginner’s guide to comedy, telling funny jokes, and learning how to incorporate humor into everyday conversations. Being funny on demand is a skill. It’s a skill that allows you to disarm tense situations and spread joy.

Whether it's a one-on-one presentation, or a presentation before a group of any size, these humor gems (delivered correctly) will help to put any audience at ease, and will help you to close more sales and to get more of your important points across. Heck, you might even get a date!

Eltern sein klingt easy - ist es aber nicht. Tyrannisiert von den lieben Kleinen und verunsichert von einer Schwemme an Ratgebern stoßen Mamas und Papas landauf, landab regelmäßig an ihre Grenzen. Wenn alles schief geht und keine noch so pädagogisch wertvolle Maßnahme mehr fruchtet, hilft nur der Griff in die Trickkiste. Und diese Kiste ist groß! Egal, ob Daumenlutschen, Anschnall-Verweigerung oder Computer-Sucht: Dieses Hörbuch liefert die witzigsten Tipps für eine Erziehung mit Augenzwinkern.

This book has helped land Nickelodeon series regular roles, and helped performers appear on NBC’s America’s Got Talent, Comedy Central, Showtime, comedy festivals and clubs across the country, and to being featured on SiriusXM! The techniques in this book have been used with comedians from ages 8 to 80, and can help you find your comedic voice! Throughout this book, you will uncover the unique characteristics about yourself that are funny. Further, you will build extraordinary self-confidence through this art form. You'll find not only your funny but yourself.

Dave Barry exposes natural childbirth for what it is: a pop phenomenon of the 1960's that, along with paisley bell-bottoms and creative sideburns, deserves a rest. His new book gives parents-to-be the hard facts they need. He examines the new federal law requiring prospective fathers to free themselves from their self-made macho prison - to laugh, cry, love and just generally behave like certified wimps.

What is there for a husband and father of three to do when he suddenly loses his job? Well...he can become a house-dad! Is a man really capable of handling all of the household tasks as well as teaching manners to a three-year-old tyrant? How does it make him feel that his wife brings home the bacon instead of him? How will he and we, his two older children, cope with the snide comments of people that don't respect his decision?

Dal riconoscimento del bebè all'uso disinvolto del seggiolino omologato per bicicletta, dalla prima supposta alla lotta ai microbi, dalle recite scolastiche all'"età difficile": essere figlio è naturale, ma essere genitore è un'avventura. E quando Beppe Tosco, padre di due figli oggi grandi, ha avuto tra le braccia il suo primo frugoletto si è reso conto che fare il papà non fa solo diventare adulti, ma anche tornare bambini. E con questo manuale assai scorretto per allevare i figli a terra ci riporta direttamente nel nostro passato.

This book is filled with anecdotes of weird and stressful life scenarios and how all we could do was laugh and say "Oki f*cking dokie". This is a lighthearted self-help listen that shows how these past thoughts and experiences are ones we all share. We can laugh out loud and cringe about them together!

Another hilarious look at the challenges of parenting, as the father of a young girl is suddenly tasked with getting her a leotard before her first gymnastics class. What happens next is an endearing journey of comedy that we've all been through: the challenge of shopping quickly combined with the fun and magic of childhood. The result is a fun romp that will have any parent laughing out loud.

S'Mother is a hilarious memoir based on 30 years of unsolicited advice, news updates, and opinions in the form of thousands of inappropriate, embarrassing, and utterly crazy letters showing the pathological extremes maternal instincts can take. Why is a grown woman so frantic that her adult son screw on his windows to keep out killer bees? Are adult trick-or-treaters really that much of a threat?

The Sweet Potato Queens like men. They like them so much that they have devoted an absolutely inordinate amount of time to the pursuit of men, marriage, and great sex. And then, when that doesn't work out, they've devoted an inordinate amount of time to divorce, gittin another one and having great sex with him instead. The Sweet Potato Queens' Field Guide to Men is the Queens manifesto on all matters of the heart, featuring tales from Queens around the world, plus the continuing adventures of the women you've come to know and love (and envy just a little bit).

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Are you single, dating, and frustrated? Do you find difficulty in understanding the opposite sex? Well, ponder no more! Learn the what, when, why and how’s of dating in just minutes. In this self-proclaimed dating guide, Black Mermaid expressively addresses both men and women, giving each their own section to draw from while offering a bonus section applicable to both genders. Each short section tackles specific gender driven issues and the dos and don’ts of dating.

Do you accidentally get turned on while watching a nature documentary? Are you dating someone whose tattoos are the worst, but you're having the best sex of your life? Are you feeling emasculated because your girlfriend has had more one-night stands than you? Never fear: the world's first mother-son sex and relationships advice duo is here to save you from yourself.