Author Talk: An evening with Richard Glover

Think you’re doing parenting wrong? Don’t worry – generations of Australian parents have been told exactly the same thing! Think you’re doing parenting wrong? Don’t worry – generations of Australian parents have been told exactly the same thing! Join bestselling author and broadcaster Richard Glover for a hilarious and even alarming account of more than a century of Australian parenting advice in his title, How to Ruin a Child. With plenty of nostalgia, research and his trademark humour, he explores the changes to parenting advice over the generations, while reassuring us that there’s never been one ‘right’ way to raise a child Parenting has always been tough, and somehow, most of us turned out alright! When: Thursday 5 November Where: Bankstown Library and Knowledge Centre, 80 Rickard Rd, Bankstown Time: 6 -7.30pm Cost: $5.00 Light refreshments served from 5:30pm A bookseller will be on site with copies of the book for purchase and signing, Venue is accessible, including accessible bathrooms and parking. Accessibility Information: Canterbury-Bankstown Library is committed to providing inclusive library services and programs. Please email [email protected]. Our venue is accessible with ramp, accessible bathrooms, and parking available. About the book: A journey into the alarming, hilarious and ever-changing advice given to Australian parents. Behind every generation of Australian mothers and fathers has stood an army of advisors - magazine columnists, expert authors, nurses, priests and government agencies. Most of those experts were very certain about their own rules. Any deviation would produce a dire result: you'd ruin a child. Yet, over time, the advice kept changing. Each generation was told that the last generation had it all wrong. How peculiar that most of the experts did not have children of their own. And, for the current generation of parents, history offers a consolation. When relatives, and other critics, tell young parents that they are 'doing it all wrong', and that different (usually stricter) methods would make everything go smoothly, the experience of Australian parents over time is wonderfully reassuring. Parenting is tough, however you do it, and the outcome, however you get there, is usually a perfectly fine human. About the Author: Richard Glover is a bestselling author, including The Land Before Avocado, Best Wishes and many more. This is Richard's first book since leaving radio broadcasting, following 26 years of presenting the Drive show on ABC Radio in Sydney. Richard is a weekly contributor to Sydney Morning Herald.