For Partly Proud Parents

by Richard Armour

Here is a delightful record of the lumps and bumps, the crises and joys and puzzles of parenthood. With warmth and wit and profound understanding, Richard Armour deals with a wide variety of experiences common to partly proud" parents, from nocturnal cries (the husband does the worrying and the wife gets up) to baby sitters, from usually unexpressed thoughts about the neighbor's child to that insoluble problem in " two children, one toy." This is a book for Mother and Father to take turns reading aloud to each other during the Parents' Hour -- after the children are safely in bed.

52 pages

First published January 1, 1946

About the author

Richard Armour, a college professor of English who specialized in Chaucer and the English Romantic poets, was best known as a prolific author of light verse and wacky parodies of academic scholarship. He was a professor of English at Scripps College in Claremont from 1945 to 1966.

Armour was raised in Pomona, California, where his father owned a drugstore. He graduated from Pomona College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, then obtained his master's and Ph.D. in English literature at Harvard. He was a Harvard research fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum library in London.

Reviews

[Jan · Rating 3 out of 5]

With its introduction by Phyllis McGinley and light verse by Richard Armour, this book of my grandmother's (a light verse poet of the same period) reminded me so much of her. Parenthood was pervasive in that era, an assumed outcome for every human; she never had a choice.