Product Overview
New York Times bestselling author and all-time Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings delivers a characteristically engaging and surprisingly useful new book, revealing the truth behind all the terrible things our parents used to warn us about.
Dont cross your eyes or theyll stay like that!
Feed a cold, starve a fever!
Dont touch your Halloween candy until we get it checked out!
Never run with scissors
Dont look in the microwave while its running!
This will go down on your permanent record
Is any of it true? If so, how true? Ken Jennings wants to find out if mother and father always know best. Yes, all those years you were told not to sit too close to the television (youll hurt your eyes!) or swallow your gum (it stays in your stomach for seven years!) or crack your knuckles (arthritis!) are called into question by our countrys leading trivia guru. Jennings separates myth from fact to debunk a wide variety of parental edicts: no swimming after meals, sit up straight, dont talk to strangers, and so on.
Armed with medical case histories, scientific findings, and even the occasional experiment on himself (or his kids), Jennings exposes countless examples of parental wisdom run amok. Whether youre a parent who wants to know what you can stop worrying about or a kid (of any age) looking to say, I told you so, this is the antihelicopter parenting book youve been waiting for.
