Just You Wait: Adventures in Fighting Adultitis As First-Time Parents

by Jason W. Kotecki

Kim and Jason Kotecki had spent eight years building a business to help people be more childlike in order to create lives with less stress and more fun. They traveled around the country educating audiences about Adultitis and sharing ways to eradicate it from their lives. Many people were receptive to the message, but there were plenty of skeptics, too. "Just wait until you have kids," they'd say. "Then you ll be singing a different tune. Kids are the cause of Adultitis.

Eventually, the duo discovered that they would in fact be blessed by a child. Determined to see if their Adultitis-fighting principles would still work for them as parents, they decided to keep secret journals. Every week for the entire first year of parenthood, they each recorded their thoughts, fears, failures, and successes. What resulted was a deeply honest, humorous, and insightful look at the ups and downs of being new parents.

Every unvarnished journal entry has been collected in this book. Parents of all sorts and especially first-timers will enjoy following along with Kim and Jason on their journey into parenthood and will be left strengthened, inspired, and hopeful that children may not be the cause of Adultitis after all.

226 pages.

Black and white interior.

Lots of photographs featuring a cute baby named Lucy.

226 pages, Paperback

First published March 8, 2012

About the author

Jason Kotecki is an artist, speaker and author of several books, including his latest, "A Chance of Awesome: How Changing the Way You See Changes Everything."

Besides making art that inspires and delights people all over the world, Jason is in high demand as an engaging professional speaker. He empowers organizations and individuals to restore balance, prevent burnout, and achieve new levels of productivity and innovation with real-world strategies that tap into the timeless wisdom of childhood.

Jason and his wife, Kim (a former kindergarten teacher), are the dynamic duo behind Escape Adulthood and founders of the Cure Adultitis Institute. In their crusade to annihilate Adultitis, they inspire and encourage people to design lives with less stress and more fun.

Jason is a Batman fan, Star Wars watcher, retro t-shirt wearer, avid eater of sugar-laden cereal, and father of three kids. He lives with his family in picturesque Madison, Wisconsin, where they enjoy long walks by the lake and eat way too many cheese curds.

Learn more at EscapeAdulthood.com