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368:(and father of two), this is one of the books "that are less earnest about raising your child. They help parents step back and laugh at themselves a bit ... It's more like a parenting book for when the parent is inconsolable in the middle of night and frustrated." The publisher for the UK and the Commonwealth, Canongate, likewise pointed to the book as a parents' book: "This book perfectly captures the familiar and unspoken tribulations of putting your child down for the night. In the process, it opens up a conversation about parenting, charming and enraging as it can be, and chimes a note of solidarity with tired parents everywhere." 244:, it includes the parent's language as commentary on the tricks used by Mansbach's daughter to avoid having to go to bed. The narrator advises the child that other animals have gone to sleep already including cats and lambs, and asks the child to "Please go the fuck to sleep". As the pleading progresses, the narrator begins to grow more upset, decrying himself as a parent, then eventually falling asleep himself. He wakes to find his child asleep, then quietly exits to watch a movie with his spouse. Unfortunately, a beep from the microwave wakes up their child again. 1752: 1740: 1800: 1764: 1824: 1728: 1788: 1776: 1812: 299:. The CD's total running time is just over 7 minutes, which includes an unabridged reading of the book by Jackson, a brief introductory monologue by Jackson explaining why he decided to record the book, and approximately 2 minutes' worth of introductory and legal matter (spoken copyright notice, etc.). The actual reading of the manuscript by Jackson runs approximately 223: 345:
Whatever the cause, it is definitely the case that, when faced with a kid who refuses to go to sleep, we get annoyed, like all parents before us, but, rather than just abandoning the child to the dark and telling it that it can go to sleep or stay awake as it likes but it is staying in the bed until
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and illustrator Nancy Tillman, saying "Except for the profanity laced throughout, the book has the same kind of lilting lullaby as Eric's, and the art style is the same as Nancy's." Metaxas complained that the book damages the innocence of children's lullabies. Mansbach responded that he was not
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was subject to an unintended viral marketing campaign after PDF copies of the book, presumably from advance copies sent to booksellers, were distributed via email. While the book was originally scheduled for release in October 2011, by the end of April the book had hit No. 2 on
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According to Mansbach, the frustrations he wrote about "are not permissible to talk about. We're not completely honest because we don't want to be bad parents." Macy Halford said this frustration elicited a response peculiar to modern parents:
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way. For example, "I know you're not thirsty, that's bullshit. Stop lying. Lie the fuck down, my darling, and sleep" was changed to "I know you're not thirsty. You just had a drink. Stop goofing around now, and sleep."
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of the book. The book's title on the cover had the letters "uc" in the word "fuck" hidden by a full moon, while the book's text includes the full word. The rights for the United Kingdom and
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is a real children's book for a parent to read to their child, and the word "fuck" was replaced by the parent in the story expressing frustration with the stubborn child in a more
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When Adam Mansbach's daughter, Vivien, was 3 years old, she would take up to four hours to fall asleep. Exhausted and exasperated, one night Mansbach posted a note on
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The book was translated into many other languages, and in February 2014, it was announced on Facebook and in other sources the book would receive a translation into
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published a retort to the book: a parody poem written from the child's perspective titled "Get the Fuck Out of My Room" and containing parenting advice.
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The senior vice president and director of Macmillan Children's Publishing announced that she felt the book was a parody of Macmillan's book
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familiar with the Macmillan book and that his work satirized children's bedtime books in general rather than any particular book.
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In September 2012, Samuel L. Jackson parodied his own audio narration of the book by appearing in a TV commercial for President
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Positive initial response to the Facebook posts was matched by positive criticism from reviewers. Macy Halford, writing for
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is written as a "children's book for adults". While its writing is in the style of classic children's
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reading the book to camera in the style she formerly used on the children's television program
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in popularizing the book ("it's a miracle from the heavens for us"), is trying to prevent
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In an award-winning essay, the scholar Robin Bernstein analyzed the book and its sequel,
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20 Dumbest Things of 2011: Sleeping Air Traffic Controllers in "Stay the F**k Awake""
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As a follow-up, Mansbach wrote a family-friendly version of the book called
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Eric Adams; Steve Belanger; Adam Campbell; Bill Phillips (July 2011).
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parodied the book in "Stay The Fuck Awake", a reference to reports of
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done by a friend, illustrator Ricardo Cortés (a contributor to
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list of most commonly challenged books in the United States
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