How do you tuck in a superhero

I'm recommending it to all my friends with sons. Or even people who have no children, but are curious about those who do. Balducci is, first and foremost, a reporter, recounting the internal workings of a family that includes five children, all of them boys. She watches them--and herself--carefully, and remains humble before the truth of her earthy experience.

She loves the world she inhabits, but includes no strident advocacy in her account of it, relying instead on gentle revelation and a generous dose of humor. Funny, heartwarming, edifying, and always uplifting, Rachel shares her joy for parenting in a way that will inspire you to be a better wife and mom. Rachel Balducci is the 'cool mom,' the best friend, and the confidante you are looking for when things start to get a little crazy around your home. She teaches us that family life, with all of its ups and downs, is truly one of life's greatest gifts.

Honestly, I have to say, Balducci's stories have truly captured the spirit of living in a house full of testosterone. I laughed out loud at times, as I read about her exploits with dinosaurs, Legos, weapons of mass destruction and a Yahtzee game that almost sent her over the "edge. I highly recommend this book! It could definitely be subtitled: the care and feeding of an exotic species - the human boy.

You will probably walk away from reading this book with a new understanding of how little boys think and feel about a variety of issues and ideas especially when it comes to dressing them alike. If you have a mom friend who is struggling to understand her sons, this book might just provide the answers she's looking for - or at least it might give her some hope for the future! Or the knowledge that she is not on her own!

This book will definitely be on my list of books to pass along to parents - in fact, I've already been telling people about it it's that good Apr 18, Mandy J. Hoffman rated it really liked it Shelves: blog-reviews. She shares more than 50 of those tales--from finding her boys climbing through windows, making traps for catching bad guys or rooting through the refrigerator, ever hungry--in her delightful new book How Do You Tuck in a Superhero?

Readers will laugh out loud at the antics she experiences on a daily basis, as she pulls back the curtain on what a life filled to the brim with boys is like for one woman. From the curious scenes she catches her boys in, to the entertaining conversations she overhears, to the unimaginable rules she's been forced to make, this laugh-out-loud celebration joyfully explores the sweet and wild side of boyhood.

And then there is a book you read for pure enjoyment that keeps you laughing for days and weeks after you have turned the last page.

This is one of those books. This lighthearted look at parenting will encourage you and remind you to take one day at a time and enjoy each one for what it is.

They fly by to fast I appreciated Rachel's light approach that packed real life lessons, laughter, and a shot in the arm to any weary mother.

This fun book is broken into short stories in short chapters to enable a quick read in the midst of chaos. Even if you don't normally like to read you will love this book! And you will laugh!

Jun 22, Morgan Farr rated it it was amazing Shelves: parenting. This book was given to me at a baby shower when I was 25 weeks pregnant with my first son William. I read it through while my husband was away at Airborne School and I remember laughing at some of the stories inside, but with chapter titles like, "Proper Care and Feeding" and "The Sweet Side" I didn't exactly take it seriously.

Fast Forward three years and we arrive to present day. I have read and re-read this book four times. I currently have two rambunctious, full throttle, non-stop boys. The s This book was given to me at a baby shower when I was 25 weeks pregnant with my first son William. The stories and anecdotes in Balducci's book make me feel like she might be a kindred spirit.

Balducci does a great job of tackling the "are you going to try for a girl" question with grace and humor. My favorite part of the book however, is where she writes, Whenever we are out in public, someone will invariably come up to us and note that we have all these boys and that I have my own team. Yes I will say and I am the team mom and my job is to keep the players fed and clothed and prevent them from fouling out. I love her perspective that they are together and a team.

I love that she doesn't shy away from the fact that she has "a lot" of children. I respect that she has taken to being a mom of boys with humor and a biblical perspective. She allows them to be masculine while helping to cultivate their active little hearts and pointing them to Jesus. While I originally thought this book was going to be full of tips and tricks it was actually so much more than just another parenting book.

Rachel Balducci manages to be funny, relate-able, and relevant despite the fact that this book is predominately a biography of family life. Her wit and insights help those of us new to being Boy Moms to feel better about the fact that we have melted Legos on the bottom of our ovens. Apr 19, Laura rated it it was amazing.

She has five of them. I was impressed after reading just the first couple pages how she nailed boyhood on the head. I have two boys, and I could relate to most all the stories she shares. Such as, the love language of boys is food. Very true. Boys have to eat, and heaven help us if there is no snack food in the house. I counteract this need for junk food by keeping celery and peanut butter on hand. As well as unpeeled carrots. Then there is the phone issue.

Am I the only one in the family who can hear the phone? My husband can be sitting right beside it and no answer it. My sons will let it ring. Unless they are expecting a call—from their boss, girlfriend, etc, and then they will kill anyone in their path. I had to laugh when I read Ms. Apr 05, Cindy rated it it was amazing. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. The author has 5 boys of her own and recently had a daughter.

As the author has written - it is challenging to raise a son, much more of a challege if there are more than one boy in the household. She has written about having a bare backyard that contains a stack of dirt in one area, and toys that have been turned into weapons because weapons are cool! Even though she doesn't approve of fire arms - her sons have found ways of making anything into a gun.

She has had to deal with a lot of question The author has 5 boys of her own and recently had a daughter. She has had to deal with a lot of questions from her sons - from the toddler age to a preteen - why it's not a good idea to climb into the house through a window, why it's not a good idea to wear a torn, unwashed shirt to church, and other interesting questions that her sons have asked of her and her husband.

Though throughout all of these male-dominated activity, there are peaceful moments that have caused her to think that yes even though they like to be physical - which means someone getting hurt - and sometimes that's a loving act - there are times when her sons say things that require her to think that yes, they are boys, but boys can be sweet, when they aren't competing, playing rough, or just being wild.

I was constantly amazed and entertained throughout reading the book. It made me think of my son, even though he's still at a young age, what adventures he will have - and what adventures we will go through while raising him. Apr 21, Cindy rated it it was amazing. As the mom of two sons, Rachel Balducci's book had me howling in laughter, it also had me reminiscing about the antics of my own two sons one now passed on.

Rachel's sons and their total seriousness about the funny things of life, really was a refreshing book. I sat and read this in one morning while listening to my house being re-roofed.

Giggling and sometimes outright yelling in laughter I would read the antics or sayings to my now sixteen year old son, he even had to laugh, even though agre As the mom of two sons, Rachel Balducci's book had me howling in laughter, it also had me reminiscing about the antics of my own two sons one now passed on.

Giggling and sometimes outright yelling in laughter I would read the antics or sayings to my now sixteen year old son, he even had to laugh, even though agreeing with mom isn't cool at this stage of his life.

Of all the stories she told my favorite story was her boys' fascination with the picture of the gray whale's sex organ being bigger than their Suburban. This book truly is a great read, and it holds great insight into how boys think and are hard-wired. As moms we think like girls, boys do not think like girls. No where even close to it, things we wonder at the aburdity of, seem normal every day happenstance to them. Most definitely a book to share with a mom of toddler boys.

I look forward to reading her next book, and especially hearing how her five boys learn to live with their new baby sister. Congratulations Balducci family. Great book!! Five stars all the way! Jan 08, Monica Roy rated it liked it Shelves: library-books. I struggled with whether or not to give this book two or three stars: was it just okay, or did I like it? If I could, I'd give it 2. I think the "problems" with the book lie more with my personality and life experience than with the author's writing.

This book is what it is: a series of short entries I think some or most of which appeared on the author's blog written by a woman with five sons.

She has a since had a daughter, and I wonder how that would cha I struggled with whether or not to give this book two or three stars: was it just okay, or did I like it? She has a since had a daughter, and I wonder how that would change some of the things I didn't like about the book. I would have liked to have been the mother of lots of children, but that's not going to be my story unless I keep reproducing until I'm 45, so there's a bit of jealousy hindering my reading gosh darn freakishly fertile people!

Also, the author is way more into traditional gender roles than I am, which diminished my enjoyment as well. Girls like dinosaurs! Just because a boy doesn't Chuck Norris doesn't mean he's a "wimp"! I read this book because I'm expecting a baby boy in March and feel a wee bit nervous about raising a boy, and this book did provide some sweet snapshots of the unique moments and challenges raising a son or five can present.

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