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    Daddy, Stop Talking!: And Other Things My Kids Want But Won't Be Getting
    Daddy, Stop Talking!: And Other Things My Kids Want But Won't Be Getting
    Daddy, Stop Talking!: And Other Things My Kids Want But Won't Be Getting
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    Daddy, Stop Talking!: And Other Things My Kids Want But Won't Be Getting

    Written by Adam Carolla

    Narrated by Adam Carolla

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    The comedian, actor, television host, podcast king, and New York Times bestselling author of President Me, Not Taco Bell Material, and In Fifty Years We’ll All Be Chicks now lays down the law on the plight of the modern parent.

    Parents, do you often think that if your kids had to grow up the way you did—without iPads, 70-inch flatscreen TVs, American Girl dolls, and wifi in the climate controlled minivan—that they might actually be better off? Do you feel underappreciated or ignored? Do you worry you’re raising a bunch of spoiled softies who will never know how to do anything themselves—because you do everything for them? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you need Daddy, Stop Talking.

    Adam rips parenthood a new one, telling it straight about what adults must do if they don’t want to have to support their kids forever. Using his own crappy childhood as a cautionary tale, and touting the pitfalls of the kind of helicopter parenting so pervasive today, Daddy, Stop Talking is the only parenting book you should ever read. Here, too, is sage advice to Adam’s own kids—and to future parents—on what matters most: dating; drinking and drugs; buying your first house and car; puberty; and what kind of assholes his kids (and yours) should avoid becoming. Even if his own son and daughter pretty much ignore everything he says, you shouldn’t. And you’re welcome. Again.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateJun 2, 2015
    ISBN9780062404589
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    Adam Carolla

    Adam Carolla is the author of the New York Times bestsellers In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks, Not Taco Bell Material, and President Me, as well as a radio and television host, comedian, and actor. Carolla is well known as the cohost of the syndicated radio and MTV show Loveline, the cocreator and star of The Man Show and Crank Yankers, and a contestant on Dancing with the Stars and Celebrity Apprentice. He currently hosts Catch a Contractor and The Adam Carolla Show, which is the Guinness World Record holder for Most Downloaded Podcast and is available on iTunes and AdamCarolla.com.

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    • 5/5
      Great way to educate us future dads. Thanks Adam! Very entertaining. Lots of great takeaways and philosophy
    • 4/5
      Anther great book by Adam. His kids or stories of parenthood doesn’t take up the entire book, as you would think. However, the stories he tell (parenting or otherwise) are so hilarious that it just makes you laugh out loud. I recommend this audiobook.
    • 5/5
      Adam and I had a very similar childhood, raised by people who mostly seemed indifferent to us. Now that I have kids of my own I cannot imagine how anyone could be that way. It’s great to have somebody help me laugh about it now. Most of my friends had at least a decent childhood and just cant relate to me in this way at all.
      A philosopher once wrote (paraphrased poorly) that the beauty of art, music and literature is that other people are often able to express our own thoughts and feelings more clearly than we ever could and through this we are better able to understand ourselves and experiences.

      Thanks.
    • 5/5
      Fantastic and wonderful look at raising children in today’s culture, through the eyes of a man who had horrible parents and made himself a success through hard work and pragmatism