Sarah Fader

This is a very short story about three year old Sammy. Take this book with a grain of salt. This little girl gets herself into so much trouble. She destroys mommy's phone, gets into mommy's pills and makeup and eventually burns the house down. Now I certainly do not condone that type of behaviour and I surely hope that parents would be watching their children a little better than this mom, but it was cute and I did smile when reading it.

The message I took from this book is that kids, especially three-year-olds, will get into just about everything if you do not watch them, they will make a mess, and all they are really doing is exploring and trying to make you happy. As a grandmother of a 2.5 year old, I could see him doing some or all of those things if he was left to his own devices. As it is, he has made messes, gotten into things I did not expect him to get into and made me laugh over and over but he was always safe and supervised. I know my daughter-in-law would love this book.

I received a copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.… (meer)

That escalated quickly.

(Full disclosure: I received a free electronic ARC for review through NetGalley.)

Sammy would blow up entire planets just to get the pink jellybean instead of the white one. God love her, but she may as well have been Darth Vader.

This is the story of three-year-old Samantha - Sammy for short - who just wants to make a beautiful, sparkly rainbow. At three in the morning. On the bathroom floor, using mom's birth control pills and body lotion as her medium.

Sammy kicks off her morning of mayhem by throwing mom's cell in the toilet and peeing on it and, while mom is preoccupied scrubbing the bathroom clean, Sam sneaks out and -

- nope, spoilers! Suffice it to say that things escalate quickly (and probably in a way that keeps parents awake at night). It's rare that a book makes me LOL, but this particular scene did just that.

Three-Year-Olds Are A**holes is a silly picture book for adults that would make a most excellent gift for parents - expecting, new, old, doesn't matter. I had the pleasure of reviewing this on NetGalley and was surprised to find a "send to Kindle" option in addition to the expected "download a protected pdf file," which is the norm for books that are heavy on graphic elements (picture books, graphic novels, photography books). Not only is it easily readable on a Kindle, but I think it actually looks better: the grayscale coloring minimizes some of the harsh, contrasting colors of the artwork.

I suppose that some people will object outright to the title of the book (children are precious!), and I get it. But calling kids a-holes is both a term of endearment and a way of blowing off steam; acknowledging that parenting is a hard and frustrating and often thankless job. Sometimes you'll get overwhelmed or annoyed, and that's okay!

I do the same with my rescue dogs - who, while not exactly like kids, are family members just the same. They are (affectionately) my assholes and shitbags and little monsters. Whether it's Mags, nipping my hand as I lift her onto the couch (at her request!), or Rennie, plopping her fat ass down on the bed as I try to make it, they can sometimes be awful (though not always intentionally so), and usually I just love them all the more for it.

Pairs well with: Go the Fuck to Sleep; You Have to Fucking Eat.

http://www.easyvegan.info/2016/05/18/three-year-olds-are-a-holes-by-sarah-fader/… (meer)

Three-Year-Olds are A**holes by Sarah Fader is a look at the antics of a girl named Sammy in one day. I had four boys and I guess I was lucky because I only had a few of these days but they were enough. I think every mother can relate to having a bad day, I hope this mother doesn't live with Sammy like this every day! If it was suppose to be funny, it really wasn't. I was hoping it would be funny odd things that three year olds do that might bother us but it was just destructive behavior. I received this book for a honest review.… (meer)