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A User's Guide to Neglectful Parenting
A User's Guide to Neglectful Parenting | Guy Delisle
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Meditations on fatherhood from the author of Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy CityWith A User's Guide to Neglectful Parenting, the trademark dry humor that pervades Guy Delisle's landmark and praised graphic travelogues takes center stage. Quick, light vignettes play on the worries and cares any young parent might have, and offer wry solutions to the petty frustrations of being a dad who works from home. Readers familiar with Delisle's stranger-in-a-strange-land technique for storytelling (employed in Jerusalem, Pyongyang, Burma, and Shenzhen) will recognize the titular parent in this book; Delisle's travelogues were simultaneously portraits of complex places and times, and portraits of a stay-at-home dad's ever-changing relationship with his children while his wife is out working for Doctors Without Borders. The relationship between young child and all-too-irony-aware parent is beautifully done here, and Delisle's loose flowing style has been set free, creating a wonderful sense of motion throughout. A User's Guide to Neglectful Parenting is an intimate, offbeat look at the joys of parenting.
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MoniqueChristine
MoniqueChristine
A User's Guide to Neglectful Parenting | Guy Delisle
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Hilariously awful and a little to familiar to my own father. I really enjoyed these simple vignettes. The comedic timing is fantastic. I really have to hand it to Helge Dascher for their great translation. They really managed to get the humour across. #comicsread2018

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MoniqueChristine
MoniqueChristine
A User's Guide to Neglectful Parenting | Guy Delisle
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Oh god this man is just like my father! 😂

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MoniqueChristine
MoniqueChristine
A User's Guide to Neglectful Parenting | Guy Delisle
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That seems like a dumb prank my dad would pull 😆

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MoniqueChristine
MoniqueChristine
A User's Guide to Neglectful Parenting | Guy Delisle
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I feel like some reading! 😋
These should be fun, fast, and light ❤️

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Gleefulreader
Gleefulreader
A User's Guide to Neglectful Parenting | Guy Delisle
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A quick read as it is a series of brief vignettes highlighting Delisle's relationship with his children. Given some of the content, one hopes that there was a lot of artistic latitude/exaggeration taken, but some of the stories were funny. However, one story bothered deeply. Delisle is teaching his son how to hit a punching bag and the kid keeps hitting lightly until Delisle tells him to pretend it is his sister. Never cool dude. NEVER.

brilliantglow Wow what an awful way to go about it. 8y
Gleefulreader @brilliantglow Exactly. There was this whole build up, and it was clearly meant as a joke - the whole "think of something you really want to punch. Like your sister!" and then the kid finally wallops the bag really hard. But so hard not to see it as a reinforcement that is ok to think about hitting women. 8y
brilliantglow Yes and I would also say that thinking not only encourages violence against women but that it is okay to hit someone if they make you angry, which is also very much not okay. I mean, it was a joke he should have come up with something funny like pretend the punching bag is a snowman or a big pile of homework. 8y
Gleefulreader @brilliantglow yes - I was thinking of that too (and running out of room in my comment :) 8y
brilliantglow Yes, I suspected we were very much on the same thought train. 😃 8y
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Lettters
Lettters
A User's Guide to Neglectful Parenting | Guy Delisle
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A charming turn from the globetrotting comics artist traveloguer. Hilarious and all too familiar, this collection of vignettes is a perfect way to undo some of the joyful stress young kids can inadvertently add to your day.

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