Why read Damage Control?

Book cover of Damage Control: Public Relations for the Perfectly Fine Family

Book description

Doug Merit's middle name is damage control. Working in public relations for GE, he's ready for any challenge: a teenaged son who still plays with trains, a thirteen-year-old daughter who hasn't spoken to him in six months, a first-grader who is a little too devoted to animal rights, and a…

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Animal rights

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Literary fiction

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Why read it?

1 author picked Damage Control as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Neil Connelly

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I love this book because I think of it every time I go up on a ladder. That’s where Doug Merritt, the father of the family on the precipice here, goes when he needs to clear his mind.

I laughed out loud reading it, and more than once I found myself thinking about my own parenting, how the size and scope of that obligation is totally out of whack with your ability to influence kids at a certain point. Like I did with my sons, Merritt does his best to hold things together, and if he doesn’t entirely succeed, he…

From Neil's list on families on the brink, or over the edge.