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Child, Please

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Author: Ylonda Gault Caviness
ISBN: 9780698158436

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Published on May 05, 2015 | 320 Pages

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Published on May 05, 2015 | 320 Pages

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In this wise and funny memoir, Ylonda Gault Caviness describes her journey to the realization that all the parenting advice she was obsessively devouring as a new parent (and sharing with the world as a parenting expert and journalist) didn’t mean scratch compared to her mama’s old-school wisdom as a strong black woman and mother.

With child number one, Caviness set her course: to give her children everything she had. Child number two came along and she patiently persisted. But when her third child arrived, Caviness was so exhausted that she decided to listen to what her mother had been saying all along: Give them everything they want, and there’ll be nothing left of you. In Child, Please, Caviness describes the road back to embracing a more sane–not to mention loving–way of raising children. Her mother had it right all along.

“A real treasure. . . Ylonda is an engaging voice with smart, timely advice. She’s informative and credible—but never boring or stuffy. I love her point of view.”
—Celeste Headlee, host of NPR’s “The Takeaway”

“Wise and entertaining, Child, Please combines the keen insights of a journalist and the humor of a good girlfriend. . . A must read.”
— Michele Borba, author of 12 Simple Secrets Real Moms Know and TODAY contributor

“Ylonda Caviness is a mom who has been-there-and-done-that and knows how to convert that wisdom into words. Her entertaining, yet comforting voice is just what today’s moms need to help put parenthood into perspective.”
—Dr. Ari Brown, pediatrician and author of the Baby 411 book series

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Ylonda Gault Caviness

Ylonda Gault Caviness, former senior producer at www.iVillage.com’s Pregnancy and Parenting section—the largest women’s website with 37 million monthly views—has been a parenting journalist for more than a decade. She has written for Redbook, Health, Parenting, Pregnancy, and other magazines and websites.

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