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Ours Baby: The Only Child Your Stepmom Loves
Paperback
Series: Funny and Inappropriate Baby Books, Book 21
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 22 2020
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.08 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Your new stepmom seems nice. She makes your dad happy. But she wants more from the situation, specifically a baby that is hers and dad's rather than just dad's from the previous arrangement, and once that baby arrives the household dynamics shift in the direction that the title suggests and this book documents without softening. Ours Baby is the only child the stepmom loves. The other children are present. The other children have assessed the situation. The book is their accounting of it, illustrated in cartoon form, with the specific accuracy of children who notice everything and have been told they're imagining things.
This illustrated adult parody book addresses the blended family experience with the honesty that most family content about blended families diplomatically avoids. Not all stepparents are evil. Not all Ours Babies create imbalance. This particular scenario, however, has created a specific kind of imbalance that the non-Ours children have accurately identified, and the book validates their identification with cartoon art and the resigned humor of a situation that is real and funny and sad and mostly just real.
This Book IS For:- Adults who grew up in a blended family and recognized the Ours Baby phenomenon with uncomfortable accuracy
- Fans of dark humor that takes a recognizable domestic situation and documents it without the therapeutic framework
- Anyone who has been told you're imagining things about something they were definitely not imagining
- Gift-givers who know someone in or from a blended family situation where the Ours Baby dynamic has been a topic
- Stepparents who are currently doing an excellent job of loving all children equally and feel this premise is unfair to their experience
- Anyone in a blended family that functions without this particular dynamic who feels represented anyway and is upset about it
- Readers who need illustrated family content to end with equal love confirmed and distributed fairly across all parties
- The Ours Baby themselves, who are innocent in this and whose future therapy is already accounted for
- Gag gifts for adults who grew up in blended families and have the specific sense of humor that produces
- White elephant exchanges among people who will immediately think of a family member this applies to
- Gifts for the therapist in your life who sees this dynamic regularly and needs something for the break room shelf
- Anyone who has described their childhood home as complicated and wants a book that captures one of the complications
Most books about blended families are either therapeutic guides for parents or storybooks that illustrate how wonderful the blended situation can be. This book is neither. It is documentation of a specific experience that a significant percentage of the population has had and that is underrepresented in illustrated form. The Ours Baby is real. The dynamic is real. The cartoon art makes it funny in the distance-from-childhood way that is the only way it can be funny. That distance is the whole gift.
The stepmom is not a villain in her own story. That's the most accurate thing about her. Buy this for someone who grew up with an Ours Baby and can now laugh about it. Buy it for someone who is about to become a stepmom and needs this as a cautionary reference. The baby is theirs. The dynamic is documented. The other children noticed. They always notice. Now there's a book about it.
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