How to Mess Up Your Child’s Life
Olivia and Kurt Bruner
Faith Words; 2009, 172 pp., $12.99
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Tired of all the hard work necessary to raise your teens right? Then this tongue-in-cheek book is for you. Mess Up acknowledges there are too many parenting books and too few reading them because what they recommend is hard. This book helps parents do the easier task: Let children mess up their lives by pursuing sinful and destructive behavior. Rather than push your child uphill to success and happiness, let them roll downhill to despair and misery.
Christian parenting experts Olivia and Kurt Bruner offer great precautions should you change your mind and actually want your children to grow up cheerful and well-rounded, suggesting a variety of fun, family-friendly activities to counter a child’s built-in desire to “mess up.” This is a fun book for the whole family.
