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Clint Edwards’s parenting tips include: 1. You don’t have to give your kid a bath all the time, just wipe them down from time to time. 2. If you find a long lost sippy cup, don’t open it. Just throw it away, trust me. 3. Getting a sitter so you can go to the store alone is worth every damn penny. With stinging wit, laugh-out-loud humour and brutal honesty, Clint brings to light what every parent and spouse eventually learns but refuses to say out loud to each other. His essays include “All the Things I Never Should Have Said to My Pregnant Wife,” “Just Because I Get Up In the Night Doesn’t Mean I Deserve Praise” and “Contrary to My Original Assumption, You Can Have a Favourite Child.” His essays will have parents everywhere shaking their heads “yes.” Clint’s blog, No Idea What I am Doing, has over 144,000 Facebook likes, and he writes for huge outlets like Scary Mommy, Babble, the New York Times and has been featured on Good Morning America. He has three children, aged 2, 7 and 10.

Clint Edwards, author of the hit book I'm Sorry... Love Your Husband, and the follow up Silence is a Scary Sound, is back with a third collection of essays chronicling honest tales of struggling to raise three young kids, making plenty of mistakes along the way and learning to be a better father. After Clint's first collection of stories, which act as an apology to his wife, this natural follow up will place the author's children at the centre of the apology and recount funny and relatable tales of Clint's parenting fails. Stories will detail incidents of the author half surviving, half ruining birthdays, holidays, vacations and other important milestones in his children's lives, and touchingly examine the ways he makes up for them. With this book exploring the widely universal theme of parenting, new audiences (as well as Clint's dedicated following) will see stories as both a mirror of their own lives and a comic relief from it. Essays include titles like, "I Changed A Friend's Name in my Phone to Santa and Had Him Text Threats to my Children" and "Reasons My Children Cried At Their Own Birthday Parties." Clint's addicting voice, writing about being a parent around the holidays, will help anyone who is a mother or father, who works with young children, is member of a large family or has ever taken care of another human being before connect with these stories.

Clint Edwards, beloved author of Father-ish, Silence is a Scary Sound, and I'm Sorry... Love, Your Husband, returns with a new book unpacking the challenges and struggles of living with mental illness. Where Clint's previous books centered on his relationship with his wife and children, he now turns a critical eye towards his own childhood, detailing his experiences coping with anxiety and being raised by parents with their own (undiagnosed) mental illnesses. Though Clint's stories are brutally honest, his humorous nature exposes moments of levity in the face of tragedy and tribulation. Readers will find comfort and familiarity in Clint's struggle as he attempts to avoid the pitfalls his own parents made and strives to be a better parent and spouse himself. Stories include running away from home to live with his grandmother, reconnecting with his mother with the help of a 48-inch clock and a garbage bag, and getting the anxiety poops in ninth grade PE. Clint's sincere voice paired with his knack for finding humor in the darker moments of his life will help spouses, parents, and anyone with parents connect to and find reassurance in his stories.