Please Don't Eat the Daisies Author:Jean Kerr From amazon.com: — Jean Kerr, author, playwright, and wife of theater critic Walter Kerr, has invited all of us to join her in the madcap life she describes as a (real life) suburban working mother of four boys. Although dated, these 1957 vignettes into the Kerr household, read here with ease by Marni Webb, suggest that without a heavy dose of... more » humor, any Mom is liable to end up on a psychiatrist's couch at $25 an hour. For example, if you don't remember to tell your child what not to do (usually something completely unimaginable and totally outrageous), there she will be, doing it, having conceived the impossible and actualizing it herself.« less
"Please Don't Eat the Daisies" is a delightful set of essays about raising boys, buying a home and working as a writer. The book stands the test of time well, continuing to be funny and relevant.