"My Mom is Trying to Ruin my Life" by Kate Feiffer

This book is about a girl who is embarrassed by the things her mom and dad do and she doesn't understand why everyone thinks her parents are such great people. After thinking a lot about how to get her parents to go away and stop ruining her life she realizes that she would be very scared without them. At the end of the book she realizes that she loves her parents despite the embarrassing things that they sometimes do. I liked this book a lot because many children go through stages when they feel this way about their parents. Sometimes it's difficult to think about all the good things someone does for you until after they're gone. I think I could use this book to teach children about the importance of family and that even though people do things that are ambarrassing it's only because they care.