Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old like a Skank and Other Words of Delicate Southern Wisdom by Celia Rivenbark

I laughed out loud when I read Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank And Other Words of Delicate Southern Wisdom by Celia Rivenbark. Here are some highlights:

Over scheduling your child has become an epidemic. Moms run ragged with after school activities are fraying during the summer months. They schedule sports camps, day camps, art camps, play dates, and parties from dawn 'til dusk to keep little Sally/Billy occupied and expanding all day every day. Not Celia she thought her daughter was a kid and would do kid things and hang out with mom. WRONG! Children quickly become a product of their "school environment" no matter what you create at home. Celia's little princess bought into the over scheduled lifestyle of her friends. "I guess the thing I hadn't counted on was that, even on a day like yesterday, which included a three hour play date with a friend, a t-ball game, and a birthday party at an amusement park, my daughter would actually say, "I'm booorred" in the twenty odd minutes we had between rushing from place to place"