A Book in Review – Even June Cleaver Would Forget the Juice Box

Book Count: 27

Even June Cleaver Would Forget the Juice Box, By: Ann Dunnewold, Ph.D.
Non-Fiction: Self-help, Parenting 285 pages 2007

This book is about not being one of those extreme parenting people who are obsessed with their kids and always pushing them in school or sports, setting up every moment of their day, and/or in some other way being overprotective and/or acting as if every action of the parent will determine the child’s whole life. It talks about why people act that way in this country, how ideas on parenting have changed through history and by culture and how unrealistic the idea of the perfect parent are. It then goes into how one can be a “perfectly good mother” using common sense, realistic expectations and thinking about what is truly important to you for your children’s’ future to raise kids. It was a well thought out, well reacurched, helpful and funny book on the subject of child rearing. It points out such things as although characters like June Cleaver are seen as the perfect model of a wife and mother the actress that played her left her own kids each day to be her and June didn’t do much of any actual parenting as she was too busy cleaning and cooking in high heals and pearls. Wally and the Beav were always playing on their own, doing there homework with out help and had to walk everywhere as she never drove them or even put them in any activities.