Lockdown Parenting Fails:

by Nathan Joyce

Did your home haircut make your child look like Friar Tuck?Did you forget to put bananas in your banana bread?Did your primary-schooler have to correct your times tables?Then you were probably one of many people trying your f*cking hardest to parent during lockdown, and so now deserve a medal (or a case of gin).Featuring entries from fellow survivors on the horrors of homeschooling, the nightmares of kitchen experiments, the fallibility of trying to keep your colleagues' respect, the inevitability of putting on all the weight and the joys of considering what you did to make the world punish you so......Lockdown Parenting Fails is a hilarious (and trauma-inducing) collection of the best memories from the worst time in everyone's lives.

110 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 1, 2020

Reviews

[Tammy · Rating 5 out of 5]

A hilarious collection of tweets from parents during the world wide lockdown that began back in March 2020. I loved that the book was sectioned off into categories, some wonderful antidotes to those of us who feel like parenting was a total wreck during lockdown! We definitely weren't alone and this book documented tweets about homeschool, disastrous banana bread results, working from home fails and so many more. Definitely worth a read of you need a laugh about the year just past.

[Kerry Norris · Rating 4 out of 5]

AD Gifted - This book was kindly gifted to me by Edpr. As a mum of two young girls, who also had to work as a key worker through the entire pandemic (in a hospital), I couldn’t wait to read it.
It’s compiled by Nathan Joyce who begins each chapter with his own reflections which are then followed by other parents tweets on the same topics.
It covers all the parenting lockdown woes and wins from baking banana bread to working from home. FYI, I didn’t once bake banana bread lol.
It honestly had me laughing out loud. It was incredibly relatable. It will make a perfect stocking filler or secret Santa gift for any parents.
It’s a quick and easy read but one that could be kept to look back on in future years to remember how we coped with the pandemic.
Thanks again to Megan for sending me a copy.
4.5/5

[Jenny Hobson · Rating 5 out of 5]

A real gem of a book. It made me laugh and smile. A perfect read during this rubbish time for a bit of light heartedness

[Jessica · Rating 3 out of 5]

A perfect keepsake to remind you of a weird year!

Some of the tweets I could definitely relate to myself and it was a fun and lighthearted read.

[Gemma Adair · Rating 4 out of 5]

Amusing and honest look into parenting, during a global pandemic and stay at home order.

[Natasha Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read whilst in the bath and this is funny and totally relatable. Well worth a read and a giggle because quite frankly lockdown was hard.

[Emma · Rating 3 out of 5]

A really easy read, with lots of content that I could relate too but only a couple of laugh out loud moments. Will pass an idle 30 minutes or so but that’s it.

[Kerry-louise Jones · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a quick read full of all the funny moments that have come out of such a difficult time. I think this is a great book to keep to look back on in the future at a time that tried us all!