Wholesale Keep It Real and Grab a Plunger: 25 Tips for Surviving Parenthood

Part memoir, part practical handbook, Keep It Real and Grab a Plunger delivers 25 down-to-earth parenting tips from educator and mother of five Julie K. Nelson. With humor and honesty, she tackles encouragement versus praise, values-based parenting, potty training, taming tempers, family dinners, teenagers, co-parenting after divorce, blended families, technology, and more. Grounded in research yet endlessly relatable, this is an encouraging companion for imperfect parents who want to strengthen family relationships one messy, funny, ordinary day at a time. * 25 bite-sized, funny, real-life parenting tips you can actually use tomorrow * From a professor and mother of five who admits she doesn't have it all figured out either * Research-backed advice delivered with laugh-out-loud honesty (Ninja Turtle underwear at a concert, anyone?) * A standout, deeply practical chapter on parenting blended families “I have no idea what I am doing, but I know I'm doing it really, really well.” Perfect for an overwhelmed but well-meaning parent of young children through teens who wants encouraging, funny, practical advice they can actually use.