Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
How to Raise Kids who Won't Hate You
Alan Thicke · 2009
55/100
👎 Skip It
Thicke's celebrity-dad perspective is genuinely entertaining in short doses, and humor makes the parenting topics approachable, but depth is thin compared to research-backed parenting books in the same space. The cultural complications that arrived after Thicke's 2016 death and his son's controversies make it a harder recommend than it would have been at publication.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety85
substance48
craft60
originality55
accuracy52
hype62
age-fit72
human-eye52
Penny’s verdict55
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