Mommy Knows Worst: James Lileks 176 pages 1400082285

Subtitle: Highlights from the Golden Age of Bad Parenting Advice. Lileks has combed through ads, magazine articles and even government issued parenting guides in the 1940's and 1950's to glean truly scary advice given to parents. It is amazing that we survived some of the well-meant, but nearly lethal hints. The pneumonia jacket -- sounded like a torturous strait jacket that a crafty mother would create for the healthy child to prevent possible infection. Lots of laughs from the dated advice given to fathers, too.