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I Sleep at Red Lights: A True Story of Life After Triplets |
Author: Bruce Stockler
Published: 2004-07-01 |
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Customer comments on this selection.
 All that's wrong with "parents" today
This is a truly sad statement on today's society. People who go into debt to have children that they don't want to raise (the wife specifically) then cry poor the whole time while shopping at specialty markets and renting vacation houses. Please. They will parade their children around to boost their egos but when the time comes to actually parent, no one is around. The wife is especially disgusting - she can stay up at night to watch TV but can't help her husband take care of the fussy children. It is far from funny - more like pathetic.
 It got me through!
I got this book when my triplets were about 18 months old. They're 4 years old now. After putting the kids to bed at night, I would read 3 or 4 pages before dropping off to sleep. I loved it. After finishing it, I would open it up randomly to just remind myself how funny parenting can be if you can find just a few minutes to reflect on your day. Stockler's honesty about all the dimensions of his life at that time makes this book very special.
Triplet Mom
I really enjoyed this book. I felt like someone finally acknowledged the emotional roller coaster ride of being triplet parents.
This is a must read for all triplet parents!
Couldn't Sleep, Couldn't Put It Down
What a wonderful surprise this book was -- a gift from a friend with twins -- had never even heard of it -- an amazing, big-hearted, down-to-earth, bitingly well-written, terribly honest, amazingly observed story of a Dad who thinks he knows everything about being a great Dad, who then faces the ultimate test -- three new babies, losing his job, becoming a stay-at-home Dad, trying to work it out with a smart but quirky and difficult wife -- the incredible bouts of humor (taking his kids to a disgusting public restroom) seamlessly mixing with his exploration of anti-family prejudice at work, his bizarre Dad, his loving but anxious mom, his struggles to become a full-time writer. And the triplets--from the first minutes of their lives, their sharply-described personalities bursting into the story and reshaping everything. A really unique memoir and a powerful voice of love and faith and truth.
It drove me nuts!
This book drove me up the wall. There is not one single likeable person in this tale, including the kids, who are well on their way to becoming complete brats by the conclusion--thanks to their father's lack of discipline and their mother's constant absence. I didn't find it amusing that he let his kids run all over the place in public, or that bedtime was never enforced. Maybe Stockler is vicariously living his "wild child" side through them, but such selfish people do not make the world a better place. And spending time with them via this book is maddening.
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