Reality Check

Are You:

• Yearning for romance, though the Barney videos and teddy bears keep getting in the way?
• Exhausted by chauffeuring your children to every activity under the sun?
• Embarrassed by your kids' temper tantrums?
• Overwhelmed by what your grandchildren are facing in school?
• Thrilled to be a parent--but not thrilled by the housework?
• Worried about what's going to become of the next generation?

Then you need a reality check!

This collection of 80 of Sheila's popular Reality Check columns is for everyone who loves kids but is in need of some common-sense wisdom with a good dose of humour. Reality Check will help you think, relax, and even laugh.

Some of her favourite columns that appear are:

• Anger is not like Flatulence
• A Prom Tale
• Man of Steel
• Spare the Rod?
• Say Cheese!
• What's a School For?
• And lots more.

The book has chapters on:

• Parenting Foibles (the funny things that happen to us as parents)
• Parenting Traps (advice for common parenting problems)
• Making a House a Home (housework, housework, and more housework)
• Keeping Love Alive (or, Dating while Married)
• The Three R's (all about school)
• Yuletide Reflections (Great Christmas thoughts!)
• The Big Picture (about changes in society)
• A Mother's Heart (the things we feel most deeply)