Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of 21st-Century Parenthood Audiobook (Free)

A clear, funny, and heartfelt memoir about fatherhood and the fluctuations of raising a family in modern America

No-one writes about family that can compare with Drew Magary. The GQ correspondent and Deadspin columnist’s tales about trying to raise a family have attracted an incredible number of visitors online. And now he’s finally getting that unique tone of voice to a memoir. In Someone Could Get Hurt, he reflects on his own parenting experiences to explore the anxiousness, rationalizations, compromises, and overpowering about Someone Could Get Harm: A Memoir of 21st-Century Parenthood love that include raising children in contemporary America.

In brutally honest and funny tales, Magary reveals how American mothers and fathers deal with being in over their heads (getting drunk while trick-or-treating, watching helplessly as a child defiantly pees in a hotel pool, participating in role-play having a princess-crazed child), and exactly how stepping back will often make all the difference (speaking a toddler down from the 3rd story of the netted-in playhouse, allowing children to make small mistakes in the kitchen to keep them from building the larger ones in life). It’s a celebration of all the surprises-joyful and otherwise-that include being part of a real family members.

In the wake of recent bestsellers that expose how every other culture raises their children better, Someone COULD EASILY GET Hurt offers a hilarious and heartfelt defense of American child rearing with a glimpse into the genuine love and compassion that accompany the missteps and flawed logic. It’s the storyplot of head lice, almost-dirty terms, and flat mind syndrome, and a guy seeking to commit the best work of selflessness is a selfish globe.