Product Description

A very funny writer on the fraught relationship between fathers and daughters, Bruce Cameron begins with the warning signs that you may be living with a teenager (e.g. Rule 5: Your car insurance suddenly costs more than your car) and continues with spot on humour on dating (Rule 2: Keep your hands and eyes off my daughter's body or I will remove them), shopping, telephone and the first job.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #210191 in Books
• Published on: 2002-05-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Review
"W. Bruce Cameron is the Dave Barry of modern family life."
--John Temple, Rocky Mountain News

Customer Reviews

Disturbing, but funny
In this fascinating work, columnist W. Bruce Cameron describes the simultaneous descent of his life into chaos and his daughter's trek through the teenage years. He covers the changes in his daughter's relationships to her family and friends, her seeming loss of sanity, and her physical changes and disturbing interest in boys. The story is covered in hilarious detail, as many aspects of life in general (and life with a teenage girl in particular) are covered, and lampooned.

I must admit that I found this book somewhat disturbing. My eleven-year-old daughter and I have been reading some American Girls books together, and the thought that this loving flower will soon turn into a teenager has my blood running cold!

But seriously, this book is a hilarious, tongue-in-cheek look at the experiences of a father of a teenage girl: what he experiences, what he feels, and how he (unsuccessfully) tries to deal with it all. It is a must-read for any father of a present or future teenager. I highly enjoyed this laugh-out-loud book, and highly recommend it to you.

Sharp, Witty and frighteningly accurate
If you have, or are scheduled to have a teenage daughter as we do, then buy this book. It's acutally worth buying even if you don't/won't ever have one. Why? Simply because it's one of those wonderful books that you can either read straight, or when tired just pick up, open at a random page and (unless you have no sense of humour ) you will laugh despite the fact that you know exactly what the author is talking about.

My wife discovered and read this book first, and kept waking me up in the night because of her uncontrollable laughter. I did the same to her when I read it, but at least she understood!

Really good. I hope W Bruce Cameron will publish again.