All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood Audiobook (Free)

“Salted with insights and epigrams, the publication is normally argued with bracing honesty and flashes of authentic wisdom…[an] excellent publication.” -Andrew Solomon, The New York Times Book Review

‘[A] richly woven, entertaining, enlightening, wrenching and funny reserve.” -The Washington Post

A large number of books have got examined the effects of parents on their children. IN EVERY Joy and No Fun, award-winning journalist Jennifer Mature now asks: what are the effects of children on their parents?

In All Pleasure and No about All Joy no Fun: The Paradox of Contemporary Parenthood Fun, award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior tries to tackle this question, isolating and analyzing the many ways that children reshape their parents’ lives, whether it’s their marriages, their careers, their habits, their interests, their friendships, or their internal senses of personal. She argues that changes within the last half hundred years have radically changed the functions of today’s mothers and fathers, producing their mandates at once more complex and far less clear.

Recruiting from a multitude of sources-in background, sociology, economics, mindset, school of thought, and anthropology-she dissects both the timeless strains of parenting and those that are brand new, and then provides her research alive in the homes of ordinary parents around the united states. The result is an unforgettable series of family members portraits, starting with parents of small children and progressing to parents of teenagers. Through energetic and accessible storytelling, Senior comes after these mothers and fathers because they wrestle with some of parenthood’s deepest vexations-and luxuriate in some of its finest rewards.

Meticulously researched yet imbued with emotional intelligence, Most Joy and No Fun makes us reconsider a few of our culture’s most elementary beliefs approximately parenthood, all while illuminating the profound ways kids deepen and add purpose to your lives. By focusing on parenthood, rather than parenting, the reserve is original and essential reading for parents of today-and tomorrow.