The Perfect Parents Handbook

With a classification system that has every parenting style down to a T, The Prefect Parents Handbook will delight modern bourgeois breeders with its dead-on characterizations of the parents who surround them. Learn the child-rearing and purchasing habits of nine types of parents. Laced with titillating facts about our child-centric culture (nursery decorators! mandatory school volunteering! baby-proofed hotel rooms!), this book decodes the complex and terrifying (preschool consultants! SAT summer camps! sonogram art!) world of raising kids. Book jacket.

Jennifer Conlin is a writer whose work has appeared in a variety of financial and parenting publications, including The New York Times. She was on the original staff of Manhattan, Inc. magazine and is in the midst of raising three children.