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While I'm not a parent I still really enjoyed this book. The comics were funny and entirely relatable. Plus, the drawings are of ducks. What's not to love about ducks?!

I've observed so many of these moments with friends' kids, along with the sticky kids who always end up next to you in the checkout line and the ones playing the games with annoying music at the highest possible volume on their parent's phone at the doctor's surgery. Whenever I come across a Fowl Language moment I have such admiration for the way parents manage the seemingly impossible and usually think, 'You poor things' and feel myself wanting to give the frazzled parents a hug. Yet at the same time I'm probably also thinking, 'This is reason number 638 why I don't have kids'.

There's always something cathartic about finding a "Me, too!" moment when you feel like you're the only one going through something and parents are definitely going to find plenty of those in this book. This is a book that can used to reminisce - "Look what we survived!", to encourage - "I think I can, I think I can" or possibly even as an effective form of birth control.

I received an ARC from NetGalley (thank you so much to NetGalley and Andrews McMeel Publishing for the opportunity) in exchange for honest feedback.

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Never heard of this comic or author before, but this was really funny. And definitely all true!

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I love Fowl Language comics. All funny because they're true.

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Fowl Language: The Struggle Is Real by [Gordon, Brian]

Funny.

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I've seen the Fowl Language cartoons around now and again, but I've never really sat down to read a bunch of them. I know I'm not a parent, but I have rabbits, so I totally related to a lot of these. I'm not even kidding. Rabbits are just as contrary as a small child, and even less capable of explaining what they actually want...

The art is cute, but pretty samey; the theme is basically "parenting is hard but worth it". It's not a big revelation or anything, but it's still a fun little collection -- especially for a parent, I imagine.

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