Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an eARC in exchange for my honest review. All thoughts are my own.
“From acclaimed artist Brett Wagner comes a book about the tall tales that parents tell their kids in the hopes of getting them to do something—eat, sleep, apologize to their sibling, or learn to do something the right way. Fun, heartfelt, and a little bit weird, Lies We Tell Our Kids exposes the not-so-great generational parenting tactic of lying to your child for the greater good!”
Okay so now that I’m thinking about it, I am definitely not the correct age demographic for this little comic book. I don’t see why I couldn’t have enjoyed it then, seeing as I’m an old soul.
I honestly thought this was so dumb. I try to not be too harsh but holy smokes. I really was annoyed while reading it. I get that he was trying to be silly but I don’t think lying to your kids to make your job easier is very kind at all. Obviously, tiny white lies are fine, such as pretending to like your child’s joke, but some of these were just stupid and cruel and could really scare your kid, which then causes more problems. Probably not the best way to go about things.
I, of course, am not a parent myself, and maybe this was supposed to be satire, expanding on the whole ‘lying to your kids’, but I just thought it was ridiculous. Nothing funny about lying. I’ll also add the art was kind of ugly.
Okay that’s enough ranting.
