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    Happy Chaos: From Punky to Parenting and My Perfectly Imperfect Adventures In Between
    Happy Chaos: From Punky to Parenting and My Perfectly Imperfect Adventures In Between
    Happy Chaos: From Punky to Parenting and My Perfectly Imperfect Adventures In Between
    Audiobook6 hours

    Happy Chaos: From Punky to Parenting and My Perfectly Imperfect Adventures In Between

    Written by Soleil Moon Frye

    Narrated by Julia Whelan

    2.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Enthusiastic, spunky, and positive, Punky Brewster was the quintessential eighties kid. Nearly thirty years later, Soleil Moon Frye-the adorable girl who played her on TV-is all grown up. Now she's a married mom of two, an entrepreneur who parlayed her successful kids' clothing line into a partnership with Target, and a social media whiz with millions of followers. Many of the same girls who watched Soleil on television are now grown up with children of their own, too, and they look to her as a go-to source for realistic, in-the-trenches parenting advice, inspiration, and fun. Happy Chaos invites those women into Soleil's world, and makes them revel in the chaos of their own lives, too.

    Soleil believes that "happy chaos" is the sign of a family operating at its best-when parents accept that they'll make mistakes, that there will be messes, tears and skinned knees. She learned to love a jumbled life during her own childhood, when her own mom created an atmosphere that was thoroughly unconventional. Their house in Los Angeles was a haven for many young stars of Soleil's generation, often far from home and looking for a safe place to hang out. In this book, she shows how her happy but chaotic childhood informed her parenting: Each chapter begins with a telling reminiscence before moving into insightful advice and fun stories about life with her husband and two adorable daughters.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateSep 21, 2011
    ISBN9781452674407
    Happy Chaos: From Punky to Parenting and My Perfectly Imperfect Adventures In Between

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    • 4/5
      I loved Punky Brewster so I was really excited to read more about her life :)
    • 2/5
      Not enough detail to be that intriguing as an autobiography and not enough insight to be a parenting book. This book has a few somewhat interesting tales of Soleil's adventures being a famous person in LA in the 80's, but even those sound more like she's just telling you the bare bones story as an opportunity to name-drop. If you have famous friends and ex-boyfriends it might be difficult to not sound like you're name-dropping, but if the story has no point *but* to tell you the name of an ex-boyfriend, then what other conclusion can we draw other than you want us to know you dated so-and-so-mr-famous? Either she has just lived a life that was content enough to not be interesting as a book or she is bad at writing it so that it makes a good book. Here's the totality of the book, she grew up with a hippie mom, was on a tv show, dated a bunch of 80's stars, and now she's a hipSTER mom in LA with Demi and Ashton as her birthing coaches. Shallow book of a seemingly shallow person, despite her claims to the contrary. The one thing that is almost good about it is when she talks about her dad having Alzheimer's and a trip they took after he was already well into it, a couple sad pages about that. Punky fans who grew up embodying the idea of radical self expression will find this book to be a little embarrassing for Soleil. It's like the lessons of having a radical hippie mom and being a character who was an outspoken non-conformist didn't make nearly the impression that the LA social scene did. She *thinks* they did, she talks about both as if they did, but what she says about her life and how she says it is evidence to the contrary.
    • 3/5
      For Punky fans only. The parenting advice here is lacking!