Three-Martini Family Vacation: A Field Guide to Intrepid Parenting Book

There are several other quotes that made me laugh as I was reading them, but these translate well out of context.

"...I go through life generally assuming, however erroneous this assumption may be, that most people don't adore children, and I have attempted to train my children to behave accordingly." (p. 69)

"With a look of horror, I realized the place was absolutely crawling with them. Packs of children. In pairs and in gangs, they were everywhere. Where had they come from, and why didn't they go back there? How could there be so many?" (p. 110)

"Do not loose a spoiled, arrogant child upon a world that is in enough trouble as it is, or we are surely doomed." (p. 159)

The book can be summed up as follows: do not allow your kids to rule your life. (I know my parents didn't cater to us kids often. If they had company over, we were allowed to play card games with them for a little bit, then it was off to bed at a reasonable time so the adults could have their own fun. I plan to treat my kid(s) similarly.)

A quick easy read, and fairly entertaining to someone with a small child. Also contains some practical advice, but the type of people who need advice like "don't go to Disney World on holiday, pick somewhere more interesting where you can really create memories" are exactly the type of people who will never touch a book like this. To date, my fondest vacation memory is camping with my grandma and going to a reptile show-and-tell where she was terrified of the boa constrictor and wouldn't go with me to hold it. So suck it, Disney World.