Author: Laura Bennett File Type: epub Laura Bennett is not a soccer mom or a PTA mom or a helicopter momand shes certainly not mother of the year. Another breed of mother entirely, Laura is surely more Auntie Mame than June Cleaver. As a busy mother of six, Laura is on an impossible mission raising a brood of fast-moving, messy, wild sons in the jungles of Manhattan. So what other choice does she have than to sit back, grab a martini, and let the boys be, er, boys?In Didnt I Feed You Yesterday?, Laura gives her irreverent take on modern motherhood and proves that a strong sense of humor and an even stronger sense of self are the mothers milk of sanity. In a series of refreshingly candid and hilarious anecdotes, she unapologetically breaks every rule in the Brady Bunch playbook She gives her kids junk food, plays favorites, and openly admits to having a genetic predisposition to laissez-faire parenting. Children, she observes, dont need constant supervision from neurotic, perfectionist parents. Allow kids to make mistakes and entertain themselves and theyll turn out just fineeven if you do sometimes forget to pick them up from school.Beyond the mayhem of a life among males, Laura celebrates the glories of womanhood with a generous helping of wit and style. She gives thanks to the fashion gods for the essentialsred lipstick, Manolo Blahniks, and Lycra shapewearbut reminds us that true style comes from an inner compass that points directly at oneself. In every aspect of life, Laura gives one simple, powerful piece of advice Dress like you want it or stay home.Brutally honest, outrageous, and sure to raise a few eyebrows, Didnt I Feed You Yesterday? is a riotously funny readand itll go fabulously well with your new handbag.Amazon.com ReviewLee Woodruff Reviews *Didnt I Feed You Yesterday?*Lee Woodruff is the life and family contributor for ABCs Good Morning America and a freelance writer. She is on the board of trustees of the Bob Woodruff Family Foundation, a nonprofit organization that provides critical resources and support to our nations injured service members, veterans, and their families--especially those affected by the signature hidden injuries of war traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, and combat stress. Lee Woodruff lives in Westchester County, New York, with her husband, ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff, and their four children. Read her guest review of Didnt I Feed You Yesterday?As the mother of four, I am sick to death of watching helicopter moms all around me over-parent and over-worry about every aspect of their kids lives.It was refreshing to open Laura Bennetts book Didnt I Feed You Yesterday? and laugh out loud at some of the witty observations she has about parenting and her tongue-in-cheek look at all of us who give in to todays competitive parenting trends.With six children of her own, her un-PC philosophy is that if she loses a kid, she has extras. Or, she looks at root canal as a chance to escape from the kids for a while. Go ahead--stifle the laugh, tsk tsk if you will, but Bennett writes what so many of us think in our lowest and most exasperated moments but are afraid to say out loud.I am a huge fan of essay books like this in todays completely fractured world. Bennetts book allowed me to read a little slice of something fun in between taking care of everyone else. And what a bonus to discover a book that is both witty, sarcastic and laugh-out-loud funny.(Lee Woodruff photo Stefan Radtke)hrAmazon Exclusive An Essay by Laura Bennett Dont Make Me Pull This Car OverVehicular discipline used to be so easy. Once my boys start with the hes touching me which moves on to a screaming match and ultimately escalates to them getting out of their seat belts to duke it out, making the van look like a mobile version of Fight Club, I would simply pull over to the side of the road and put the worst offender out of the car. Suddenly the brothers who hated him seconds before tearfully beg me to spare his life.No Mom, dont leave him! One brother begs.Please Mom, well be good. Let him back in. Another boy declares in defense of his brother standing roadside on Route 22.You... cant... just... go... says my tearful seven-year-old, only able to speak in sobbing spurts.The fleeting solidarity is quite touching. I pretend to be immune to their pleas, then after a few moments feign repent and allow their brother back in the car. We finish our journey in relative silence with just the sound of an occasional snivel coming from the back. Mission accomplished. The entire episode basically has the effect of an emotional stun gun. No one got hurt, but they are too drained to misbehave. For a couple of blocks anyway.Phrases like Stop that fighting or I will leave you right here, I hope you know your way home because you will be walking, or the perennial Dont make me pull this car over are the stuff of motherhood. Idle threats administered by us, our mothers, and their mothers before them. But thanks to Madlyn Primoff, the Scarsdale mother arrested for putting her two children out of her car and actually driving away, we can no longer use them.These threats loose all effectiveness now that our children are armed with the knowledge that we could be arrested for following through. It is imperative that kids believe they narrowly escaped hiking home only because they let go of a siblings hair or agreed not to sing Banana Nana Bo Bana for the seven hundredth time.How is this going to work when my own children turn the entire thing around and threaten to call the cops on me? When they smugly announce, you cant put us out, you know youll be arrested like that woman from Scarsdale. We have already lost the threat to spank or otherwise inflict bodily harm. Children have figured out that actual physical abuse is an arraignment waiting to happen. My mother was allowed to brandish effective weapons such as, I brought you into this world and I can take you out, or I will slap that expression right off your face. Not only did these threats scare me straight, they instilled in me the wisdom not to jump off the Mississippi River Bridge with the rest of my friends.Child rearing is war, and children are worthy opponents. How are parents expected to succeed with such a depleted arsenal? What is next to go? You are going to bed without dinner? Im going to tell your father when he gets home? I will wash your filthy mouth out with soap? When I lose the right to tell them that, yes, they should run away and I will help them pack, I surrender. --Laura BennetthrReviewAs an author, Laura Bennett exudes the qualities that she demonstrates as a designerhigh style and sophistication married to wit and whimsy.Laura gives Schiaparelli a run for her money!Tim Gunn, host of Project Runway and author of A Guide to Quality, Taste and StyleWhat all mothers are thinking but much, much, much funnier. Laura Bennett is deft, witty and brilliant.Molly Jong-Fast, author of The Sex Doctors in the Basement and Normal GirlCharming, sophisticated and hilarious. The only thing wrong with this book is that I did not write it.Patricia Heaton, star of Everybody Loves Raymond

Author: Anna Porter File Type: epub bThe incredible, inside story of the man and the organization changing the way we change the world.bGeorge Soros is well known as the legendary speculator who made a fortune betting against the British pound in 1992, but he is also a philanthropist who has spent billions in order to promote democracy around the world. Morton Abramowitz of the Carnegie Endowment for Peace once said that Soros was the only private citizen with his own foreign policy.Anna Porter has interviewed Soros, his senior staff, journalists, politicians, and many others in an attempt to understand the man. Each person has a unique story to tell. Focusing on the last decade, she explores how Soross Open Society Foundations have spread his ideas of human rights, democracy, Western liberalism, and participatory capitalism around the globe. These are the ideas Soros has said he considers worth dying for. How have they translated into reality? What will his legacy be?

Author: José Luis Bermúdez File Type: pdf Gareth Evans (1946-1980) was arguably the finest philosopher of his generation he died tragically young, but the work he completed has had a seismic impact on the philosophies of language and mind. In this volume an outstanding international team of contributors offer illuminating perspectives on Evanss groundbreaking work, paying tribute to his achievements and leading his ideas in new directions.ContributorsJosi Luis Bermidez, John Campbell, Quassim Cassam, E. J. Lowe, John McDowell, Christopher Peacocke, Ian Rumfitt, Ken Safir, Mark SainsburyReviewThis is a remarkable collection well worthy of its remarkable subject. The movement of each paper is centrifugal, as the subtitle promises, stepping out from Evanss influential work to explore the ideas and theories promoted by it. Maximilian de Gaynesford, Mind Evans was a highly critical person. But I think he would have been gratified by this collection of essays in his honour. David Smith, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews About the AuthorJose Luis Bermudez is at Washington University in St Louis.

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