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Child, please, how Mama's old-school lessons helped me check myself before I wrecked myself, Ylonda Gault Caviness

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Child, please, how Mama's old-school lessons helped me check myself before I wrecked myself, Ylonda Gault Caviness

Language

eng

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illustrations

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Child, please

Oclc number

905969885

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Ylonda Gault Caviness

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how Mama's old-school lessons helped me check myself before I wrecked myself

Summary

"In this wise and funny memoir, Ylonda Gault Caviness describes her journey to the realization that all the parenting advice she was obsessively devouring as a new parent didn't mean scratch compared to her mama's old school wisdom as a strong black woman and mother."--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Introduction Child, Please -- Get Ready, You Mutha, for teh Big Payback -- Ain't It Funky Now? -- Don't Start Smelling Yourself -- Check Yourself before You Wreck Yourself --Let's Take It to the Bridge -- Gotta Fight the Power That Be -- Some Try to Fool You; Some Try to School You -- Oops! Upside the Head -- Three the Hard Way -- Talking Loud and Saying Nothing -- Don't Let the Mother-Suckers Get You Down -- Feeling Froggy? -- Did I Stutter? -- They Call It Stormy Monday (...but Tuesday's Just as Bad) -- A Brand-New Bag -- Go 'Head on--Wit'cha Bad Self -- What We 'Bout to Do Right Here Is Go Back -- Act Like You Got Some Sense -- Reunited 'Cause We Understood -- One Nation under a Groove -- Sho' You Right -- Acknowledgments

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