Welcome to the Club

100 Parenting Milestones You Never Saw Coming

By Raquel D’Apice

ISBN: 9781452153476

Price: £9.99

I doubt there is a parent who can’t relate to this astutely observant book on parenting. It will have you laughing out loud and grimacing in remembrance. On a more serious note, it makes you feel less alone. Not much feels better as a parent than when you realise you are not the only one in the trenches, making mistakes and dealing with the daily horrors of trying to raise young children. From poop explosions to first smiles, I loved this book and its great milestones.

From the comedian behind the popular parenting blog The Ugly Volvo comes a refreshing spin on the baby milestone book. Instead of a place to lovingly capture the first time baby sleeps through the night, this book shows what it’s like the first time baby rolls off the bed/sofa/changing table, leaving mum or dad in a state of pure terror (it happens). These 100 rarely documented but all-too-realistic milestones—such as “First Time Baby Says a Word You Didn’t Want Her to Say”—provide comfort, solidarity, and comic relief for new parents. Laugh-out-loud relatable text and distinctive paper-cut illustrations of these “bad” parenting moments make this a must-have book for anyone entering the mysterious club of parenthood.

About the author: Raquel D’Apice is a comedian, humour writer and the blogger behind The Ugly Volvo. Her writing has been featured in Slate, BUST, Mommyish, iVillage, Babble, Parents, Circle of Moms, Reader’s Digest and the parenting humour anthology I JUST WANT TO BE ALONE. She also writes regular articles for The Huffington Post. The mother of a young child, she lives in New Jersey.