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Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank
Stop Dressing Your SixYearOld Like a Skank
Author: Celia Rivenbark
Subtitle: A Slightly Tarnished Southern Belle's Words of Wisdom — In some 32 short essays on the ridiculousness of modern life, Rivenbark wanders through Tweenland at the mall, thinking a better name would be "Lil Skanks." She thinks that the Cruise/Holmes pregnancy has an "indescribably delicious" Rosemary's B...  more » feel to it and recalls that Monica Lewinsky hosted a TV dating show -- in which she "didn't get the guy."

Rivenbark riffs on America's crazier obsessions -- the painful but obligatory pilgrimage to Disney World, the new attention to "buttocks cleavage," coffee makers calling themselves baristas, or those celebrity moms who have "bumps" instead of babies. Rivenbark describes herself as a "slacker mom" and reminds readers to learn something from men -- "because no matter how slack a dad is, if he does the least little thing, people gush over him."
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ISBN-13: 9780312339944
ISBN-10: 0312339941
Publication Date: 9/4/2007
Pages: 272
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4 stars, based on 69 ratings
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Book Type: Paperback
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reviewed Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank on
Helpful Score: 4
Hilarious, hysterical, giggleworthy, riotous, amusing, FUNNY, FUNNY, FUNNY!!!!!

Have I made myself clear? This book was easily the funniest book I've read in a LONG time. The first chapter had me in stitches, and I laughed out loud consistently through the rest of the book as well.

Critical reviews have compared Celia Rivenbark to Dave Barry; I'd say that sounds about right - except I can relate to her better than I can relate to him.

In any event, this author is a rare, true talent and I can't wait to get my hands on more of her books. This one is going on my keeper shelf, for sure. VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!
TBBooks07 avatar reviewed Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank on + 20 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 4
I found a lot of the things she talked about to be funny but I felt like there was just a little bit to much sarcasim in the book. If you are a mother with kids you can relate to much in the book. If you are from the south, then you REALLY can relate. Good for a few chuckles.
jazzysmom avatar reviewed Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank on + 907 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
Really, really, laugh your butt off funny. I read and laughed out loud through most of this book. I'm telling you if this author were my next door neighbor, I'd not get anything done. I'd spend all my time listening to her talk. She is hilarious, and so much of what she says is true!!!. Loved this bbok.
TangoBrat avatar reviewed Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank on + 83 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Hilarious. Celia's writing is thoroughly enjoyable. Her sarcasm and wit made me laugh out loud.
reviewed Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank on + 43 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Okay, so, I am a "Yankee" who went to college in Kentucky, which Ms. Rivenbark would probably dub a "border state" as opposed to the true South. My roommate and best friend, however, was an Alabama gal whose Mom made the best sweet tea in the country and who began a launch into gossip with the patented Southern phrase "I don't mean to be ugly, but . . . " This book not only brings me back to my 4-years of college in the South and all the cultural bizarritudes that I witnessed in the name of being "Southern," but it is also laugh-out-loud funny for a working mother who aspires to be a "slacker Mom" and is also a (self-acclaimed) expert in pop culture and politics. Way to go, Celia! I can't wait to read your other 2 books.
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