Geek Parenting: What Joffrey, Jor-El, Maleficent, and the McFlys Teach Us About Raising a Family
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- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release Date:05-17-16
- Publisher: Audible Studios
- This title is scheduled to be released on 05-17-16
It takes a starship to raise a child. Or a time machine. Or a tribe of elves. Fortunately, Geek Parenting offers all that and more, with thoughtful mini essays that reveal profound child-rearing advice (and mistakes) from the most beloved tales of geek culture. Nerds and norms alike can take counsel from some of the most iconic parent-child pairings found in pop culture: Aunt May and Peter Parker, Benjamin and Jake Sisko, Elrond and Arwen, even Cersei and Joffrey.
Publisher's Summary
It takes a starship to raise a child. Or a time machine. Or a tribe of elves. Fortunately, Geek Parenting offers all that and more, with thoughtful mini essays that reveal profound child-rearing advice (and mistakes) from the most beloved tales of geek culture.
Nerds and norms alike can take counsel from some of the most iconic parent-child pairings found in pop culture: Aunt May and Peter Parker, Benjamin and Jake Sisko, Elrond and Arwen, even Cersei and Joffrey.
Whether you're raising an Amazon princess, a Jedi Padawan, a brooding vampire, or a standard-issue human child, Geek Parenting helps you navigate the ion storms, alternate realities, and endless fetch quests that come with being a parent. Includes parenting experts from across time and space, such as:
- Luke and Vader
- Korra and Tenzin
- Wednesday and Morticia Addams
- Frodo and Bilbo
- Rose and Jackie Tyler
- Carl and Michonne
- Thor, Loki, and Odin
- Starbuck, Apollo, and Adama
- Stewie and Lois
- Sarah Manning and Mrs. S.
- T'Challa and T'Chaka
- Spock, Sarek, and Amanda
- Claudia and Lestat
- San and Moro
- Perseus and Zeus
- Dorothy and Auntie Em
- Bruce Wayne and Alfred
- Buffy and Giles
- Meg Murry and Aunt Beast
- Orpheus and Morpheus
- Paul Atreides and Lady Jessica
- Kal-El and Jor-El
- Chakotay and Kolopak
- Scott and Dr. Evil
- Diana and Hippolyta
- Alexander and Worf
©2016 Stephen H. Segal and Valya Lupescu (P)2016 Audible, Inc.
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