He opens up about helicopter parents, the sometimes rage-filled response to his book, and how he stays sane. So in time for Father’s Day, we sought out Mansbach in search of a little succor for newly minted, sleep-deprived parents, especially dads. Jackson has given voice to the audio book version. It’s a public admission that raising small children can be a horrible slog, and that the usual remedies-the watery bromides (“it won’t last forever”), the bad jokes (“you’ll know its toddler time when you’re ready to get a separate apartment”), the asinine suggestions like “go for a walk when it all gets too much”-are paltry compared to the problem of bending children to your will.īut who wants to admit that their own tots are little vampires too? Apparently, everyone: Go the F**k to Sleep debuted this week atop The New York Times advice book bestseller list, as well as atop Amazon’s sales ranking. Since going viral last month, the sweetly expletive-strewn narrative-“The cats nestle close to their kittens now / The lambs have laid down with the sheep / You’re cozy and warm in your bed, my dear/ Please go the f**k to sleep”-has turned novelist Adam Mansbach into a reluctant ringleader for Bad Dads everywhere. And I would say ‘Yeah, go the f-k to sleep'.Among the many ways for Moms and Dads to feel guilty, there is now Go the F**k to Sleep, a potty-mouthed picture book, complete with cherubic toddlers, slumbering animals, and generously dropped F-bombs. But I did say ‘Go the F-k to Sleep’ to her a lot, and I think at some point she would look at me when I would come into her room, and she would look at me and say ‘Go the F-k to Sleep, Daddy!’. Actually if I picked her up and made up a story it worked a lot better.
And I remember all those times when I did read to my daughter when she was that age and everybody tells you that reading stories will put kids to sleep, but it never works. "I was anxious to do the audio read of this book because my agent has twins and he gave me the book and I read it and I fell out laughing. Due to its explicit language, you probably should not play it for your children. Beautiful, subversive, and pants-wettingly funny, Go the F-k to Sleep is a book for parents new, old, and expectant.
In the process, he opens up a conversation about parenting, granting us permission to admit our frustrations, and laugh at their absurdity. California Book Award-winning author Adam Mansbach’s profane, affectionate, and radically honest verses perfectly capture the familiar - and unspoken - tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night.
Go the F-k to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don’t always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland. Jackson ( Pulp Fiction) rocks this mock bedtime story, capturing a hilarious range of emotions as the voice of a father struggling to get his child to sleep.
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