{"product_id":"the-lunchbox-chronicles-isbn-9780375701702","title":"The Lunch-Box Chronicles","description":"\u003ci\u003eChild\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine Best Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"For me, parenting is like dieting.  Every day, I wake up filled with resolve and good intentions, perfection in view, and every day I somehow stray from the path.  The difference is with dieting, I usually make it to lunch. . . .\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   With the candor and often hilarious outlook that have made her a beloved commentator on NPR, Marion Winik takes the reader on an unforgettable journey through modern parenthood, with all of its attendant anxieties and joys.\u003cbr\u003e        A single mother with two small boys, Winik knows exactly what she's talking about, from battles over breakfast and bedtime to the virtues of pre-packaged food and weightier issues like sex education and sibling rivalry. Part memoir and part survival guide, \u003ci\u003eThe Lunch-Box Chronicles\u003c\/i\u003e is an engaging philosophy of parenting from a staunch realist, who knows that kids and their parents both will inevitably fall far short of perfection, and that a \"good enough mom\" really is, in fact, good enough.\u003cp\u003e\"Take Erma Bombeck, add the obsession of a single mother with two boys... and you have Marion Winik, as companionable writer as a crazed parent ever found.\"- \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Marion Winik proves as able a bard for her generation as Erma Bombeck was for hers... Funny, warmhearted, and chock-full of moments of instant recognition.\"- \u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"[H]ilarious and wrenching, it's about being a parent, but it's also about so much more: love, survival, transcendence—and macaroni and cheese.\"- Anne Lamott, author of \u003ci\u003eOperating Instructions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMarion Winik has been a regular commentator on Nation Public Radio's \u003ci\u003eAll things Considered\u003c\/i\u003e since 1991. Her writing appears regularly in magazines, newspapers and online.  She is the author of both \u003ci\u003eTelling\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFirst Comes Love \u003c\/i\u003e(both available from Vintage Books).","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304883179749,"sku":"NP9780375701702","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780375701702.jpg?v=1767740349","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-lunchbox-chronicles-isbn-9780375701702","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}