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Written & audio book narrated by Marc Parent - Unabridged Nonfiction - 4 CASSETTES - 6 hours

Publisher, Time Warner Audiobooks (May 2001)

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"The aptly named Parent...shines a welcome light on one full-time dad's world..." --People Magazine

"...fresh, unsentimental immediacy...warmly appealing manner...a sweetly illuminating parent-child love story..." --New York Times

What if there are actually answers to some of the biggest questions in life? From a natural-born storyteller, a gorgeous book of lessons and inspiration from life's most perfect teachers: our children.

Walking down their road one day, Marc Parent's son Casey spied a dead squirrel. This prompted a discussion about life and death, God and Heaven, after which Casey asked, "Can we kick it?" There is nobody like a child to look life's greatest mysteries square in the eye, and there is no writer like Marc Parent to translate their revelations to the rest of us. He tries to teach his sons how to win at his favorite board games, but learns instead the real joy of making up your own incoherent rules. He nurtures their compassion, they teach him about love and forgiveness in the face of anger. This is a book about the things we knew as children — about gratitude and playfulness, acceptance and love — but elude us as adults.

About the Author: Marc Parent is the author of Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk and has written for The New York Times and USA Today among other publications. He lives in rural Pennsylvania with his wife and two sons.