Reality Check

Are You:

• Yearning for romance, though the Barney videos and teddy bears keep getting in the way?
• Exhausted by chauffeuring your children to every activity under the sun?
• Embarrassed by your kids' temper tantrums?
• Overwhelmed by what your grandchildren are facing in school?
• Thrilled to be a parent--but not thrilled by the housework?
• Worried about what's going to become of the next generation?

Then you need a reality check!

This collection of 80 of Sheila's popular Reality Check columns is for everyone who loves kids but is in need of some common-sense wisdom with a good dose of humour. Reality Check will help you think, relax, and even laugh.

Some of her favourite columns that appear are:

• Anger is not like Flatulence
• A Prom Tale
• Man of Steel
• Spare the Rod?
• Say Cheese!
• What's a School For?
• And lots more.

The book has chapters on:

• Parenting Foibles (the funny things that happen to us as parents)
• Parenting Traps (advice for common parenting problems)
• Making a House a Home (housework, housework, and more housework)
• Keeping Love Alive (or, Dating while Married)
• The Three R's (all about school)
• Yuletide Reflections (Great Christmas thoughts!)
• The Big Picture (about changes in society)
• A Mother's Heart (the things we feel most deeply)

 

 

Watch Sheila talk about controversial family issues, similar to her chapter "The Big Picture", by clicking on the video link at the bottom of this page. You can watch a 5-minute highlight reel from a November 2007 appearance "On the Line" with Christine Williams.