Afterbirth is about what parenting is really like: full of inappropriate impulses, unbelievable frustrations, and idiotic situations. ItΓ’β¬β’s about how life for some parents changes for the worse after their kids are born. Or so it feels. ItΓ’β¬β’s about how not every threeyear- old is charming and delightful and about how sometimes when your kid is having a tantrum, you have to stifle the impulse to round-house him. And Afterbirth is funnyΓ’β¬βthe participants are some of the best comic writers and performers today, turning their attention very close to home and sparing no one, particularly themselves. The thirty-five pieces include:
Γ’β¬Β’ Caroline Aaron on what it feels like when the kid moves out of the house (Γ’β¬ΕThe New Parenting ParadigmΓ’β¬Β) Γ’β¬Β’ Christie Mellor on why itΓ’β¬β’s dangerous to tell people what you really think about being a mommy (Γ’β¬ΕYahooeyΓ’β¬Β) Γ’β¬Β’ Joan Rater on parenting the unexpected (Γ’β¬ΕAttachment AdoptionΓ’β¬Β) Γ’β¬Β’ Neil Pollack on unforeseeable and unreasonable parental rage (Γ’β¬ΕThe Tennis ProΓ’β¬Β) Γ’β¬Β’ Matt Weiner on trying not to parent violently like his father did (Γ’β¬ΕGo Easy on the Old ManΓ’β¬Β)
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