Carol Wood Reviews:

8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter
by Bruce Cameron

You saw the TV Show, now read the book that started the whole thing.

I love it when a book is good by the third page. But I really love it when it's good from the first page! Reading 8 Simple Rules made all the memories of raising my teenage daughters come back and haunt me. Suddenly, I was back in my house in New Jersey explaining why "No, you and your boyfriend can not study in your bedroom when he comes over."
It felt very strange reading about two older girls and one boy - exactly what I had, and Bruce was hauntingly accurate. Everything came back to me like a big bad nightmare. The conversations he lovingly recorded, like the excerpt below, extracted memories of my most hidious parenting experiences.

Father: Wait a minute. I'm picking you up?
Daughter: Me and Heather.
Father: I mean, why do I have to pick you up? What's wrong with the car?
Daughter: I told you.
Father: No, you said it died. That's meaningless. What exactly is wrong with it?
Daughter: Well, I'm sorry you find me so miningless, but I had to walk all the way to the movie theatre. You'd think you'd feel a little sorry about that.
Father: Would you please just answer me?

How does he do that? I mean, like, she is so totally my teenage daughters! It's not hard to understand why he was voted the winner of the 2003 National Society of Newspaper Columnists.
And I so want to grab a hold of his daughter's shoulders, shake her and say,
"Will YOU MAKE SENSE!"

It was soooo REAL!
But wait, unlike raising teenagers, it was fun reading this.
Do read Bruce's book 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter.

Warning: People who read 8 Simple Rules sometimes have reuccuring attacks of huge gut shaking belly laughs and chronically force others to laugh in this vulgar manner by reading excerpts in public places! Some of the people who buy Bruce's books are repeat gift purchasing offenders.