Kidding, Laura Jane Williams
Kidding, Laura Jane Williams
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Kidding
Childlike Solutions to Bullsh*t Adult Problems

Author: Laura Jane Williams

Narrator: Laura Jane Williams

Unabridged: 3 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/09/2018


Synopsis

Kidding is the new adulting.

Consider this your permission slip to relax, laugh, and finally find happiness. At once hilarious, irreverent, and downright inspiring, Kidding shows you how to connect with your inner child to make your mundane, complicated adult life much simpler (and happier). It's a book about using your imagination and creativity to find joy, and about being happier by being who you are-which is to say, by being a big kid at heart.

Author Laura Jane Williams argues that you can be an adult but still embrace childlike (not childish) tendencies: you can own your own home and still want to build a pillow fort when the mood strikes; you can pay your bills on time and still snuggle something soft against your face because you're sad; you can run a business and still take time to play. Divided into 40 short lessons, it's an accessible, fun introduction to the self-help world that anyone can stomach.

Laura's experience as a nanny to three young, precocious children has transformed her view on life, and in this book she passes along the lessons she's learned from them. Because kids live in the present. They lose themselves in what they love, they show off, and they like themselves. Kids are curious by default, and they don't have limits because they haven't learned they exist yet. Kids do whatever the f*ck they want, precisely because they want to. To put it simply, kids have the answers, man.

About Laura Jane Williams

Laura Jane Willliams (she/her) is the author of four novels, a novella, and three works of non-fiction. The rights to her international bestseller have been sold for television and her books have been translated into languages all over the world. She loves romance, being a parent, and Mr Kipling's French Fancies – the chocolate ones are best, but strawberry will do. Laura is currently writing her next book.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kalyn on December 07, 2022

Read this with a book club and loved it. It’s full of what you would assume to be common sense reminders but with growing up, may be forgotten or undervalued. Each lesson is also written in a fun tone with examples and perspectives that one may not have looked at these simple principles through. Thi......more

Goodreads review by Karen on July 09, 2020

This was a quick read and was insightful in a 'you know this but let me remind you' kinda way. Nothing mindblowing, but not a total waste of time. The author is infinitely less funny than she thinks she is 😣......more

Goodreads review by Naomi on June 14, 2017

I’m going to start this review by being totally honest, because, among the many things this book has taught me, honesty is key. I wasn’t ready for another book, I wanted a break from books so I could reflect on Paper Butterflies and heal my broken heart. Another thing I wasn’t ready for? A self-help......more

I’m going to give this one roughly 2.5 stars; unfortunately, I didn’t like it as much as I wanted to. I am also a nanny and I know for a fact that kids have so much to teach us. Each chapter contains a lesson the author has learned from the kids she has nannied and how we can apply them to our own a......more

Goodreads review by Eduardo on January 27, 2021

This is the best non-fiction book I’ve read so far and it got a spot on my favorites!! For those who know me, you know how much I love kids and how I always say that we can learn SO much through them. Kids are raw human beings that haven’t had their personalities shaped by society yet, allowing them......more