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Shut Up and Eat!, humourist and parenting author Kathy Buckworth applies her razor-sharp wit to an examination of the family meal.

Experts claim that sitting down to eat together can prevent children from getting into trouble while simultaneously creating close-knit families. In Buckworth's opinion, that's an awful lot to expect from a meatloaf! What about the son who thinks his food tastes better on the blue plate with the fish? Or the daughter who won't eat anything green? And let's not even talk about the mom who'd rather be doing anything but standing in front of the stove (drinking a glass of wine comes immediately to mind).

Laugh-out-loud funny, more accurate than most of us would care to admit-and with a few recipes thrown in for good measure-

Shut Up and Eat! is a must-read for any woman who's ever wondered: What the hell am I cooking tonight?

KATHY BUCKWORTH is the author of several parenting humour books, including, The BlackBerry Diaries: Adventures in Modern Motherhood; Journey to the Darkside: Supermom Goes Home; and The Secret Life of Supermom. She is the only two-time winner of the Professional Writers Association of Canada Excellence in Humour Writing Award, and her writing appears in national publications and on websites around the world through her monthly "Funny Mummy" column. She is the parenting expert on Slice Television`s Birth Days and appears regularly on CBC, CTV, Global,TVO and CityTV. She lives in Mississauga, Ontario.

KATHY BUCKWORTH is the author of several parenting humour books, including The BlackBerry Diaries: Adventures in Modern Motherhood; Journey to the Darkside: Supermom Goes Home; and The Secret Life of Supermom. She is the only two-time winner of the Professional Writers Association of Canada Excellence in Humour Writing Award, and her writing appears in national publications and on websites around the world through her monthly "Funny Mummy" column. She is the parenting expert on Slice Television''s Birth Days and appears regularly on CBC, CTV, Global,TVO and CityTV. She lives in Mississauga, Ontario.