There are very less non-fiction
books which are gutsy and picks up such topics that makes you uncomfortable in
discussing it with people. I landed up picking up a book which had such a title
that it made reading it in Mumbai Local Trains a moment of getting weird looks
in return whosoever got a glance of its cover page: “54 Reasons Why Parents
Suck and Phew!”. The people above the age of 40 years looked at me as if I am a
criminal and I am the reason why our generation is not improving and doing
everything against parent’s will. And the irony is that this book is written
majorly by a mother- Dr. Swati Lodha about the emotions her 17-year-old
daughter has about her parents named Swaraa Lodha. This book also shows that
there are few parents who are willing to investigate the mindset of children
and understand them and their expectations with parents.
Indian parents, in general,
always have expectations from their children but they never think about certain
expectations that even their children have from them. They believe themselves
as demigod and thus believe that they never do any mistake in parenting. This
book is for such parents who do not understand the perspective of their child
and keep on continuing with their way of parenting irrespective of noticing
that their child is gradually getting far away from them and in few cases, even
started hating them. The authoress has written 54 chapters each detailing a
reason why children are fed up of their parents. Each reason is justified so
well that you will enjoy reading them as they are built up with all-
seriousness, humour, fun, weirdness, discomfort, issues, sadness, maturity, immaturity
and everything you know.
The book is written in a very
interesting language which keeps the readers hooked up. Talking about the
drawbacks of the book, I felt that in most of the chapters, author has spoken
in the same tone itself which makes the reading very monotonous which might bore
you after some time if you are completing the book in a one single-sitting
itself. Secondly, in many of the chapters, author talks about similar point
itself just giving it a different packaging, so it starts sounding repetitive.
Thirdly, the book is too stretched. It could have easily been completed in 200
pages with everything which is already spoken in more than 250 pages. I rate
this book 3.75* out of 5. Kudos to authors for such a unique and most-wanted
topic.
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Thanks.
ABHILASH RUHELA!!!
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