How to Ruin a Child: A Journey into the Alarming, Hilarious and Ever-Changing Advice Given to Australian Parents
Richard Glover
Sep 2026 · Bolinda · Narrated by Richard Glover
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Behind every generation of Australian mothers and fathers in the last more than hundred years, stood an army of advisors – magazine columnists, expert authors, nurses, priests and government agencies. Most of those experts were very certain about their own rules. Any deviation would produce a dire result: you'd ruin a child. Yet, over time, the advice kept changing. Each generation was told that the last generation had it all wrong. How peculiar that most of the experts did not have children of their own. And, for the current generation of parents, history offers a consolation. When relatives, and other critics, tell young parents that they are 'doing it all wrong', and that different (usually stricter) methods would make everything go smoothly, the experience of Australian parents over time is wonderfully reassuring. Parenting is tough, however you do it, and the outcome, however you do it, is usually a perfectly fine human.
Behind every generation of Australian mothers and fathers in the last more than hundred years, stood an army of advisors – magazine columnists, expert authors, nurses, priests and government agencies. Most of those experts were very certain about their own rules. Any deviation would produce a dir...
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Richard Glover is the bestselling author of a number of books, including The Land Before Avocado, Flesh Wounds and The Mud House, also available as audiobooks. He writes regularly for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Washington Post and presents the comedy show Thank God It’s Friday on ABC Local Radio. Flesh Wounds won the 2016 ABIA (Australian Book Industry Awards) Reader’s Choice Award for Biography. His latest books include Love, Clancy – A Dog's Letters Home, Best Wishes and How to Ruin a Child.
Richard Glover is the bestselling author of a number of books, including The Land Before Avocado, Flesh Wounds and The Mud House, also available as audiobooks. He writes regularly for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Washington Post and presents the comedy show Thank God It’s Friday on ABC Local...
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