Humor Writer Tim Bete´s New Pirate Book a Hit with Parents of Pirate Children
Dorothy Thompson
July 16, 2008
Humor writer Tim Bete and his nemesis in crime, Cap´n Billy "The Butcher" MacDougall know the signs and they´re willing to give you all the secrets to knowing in a new book called Cap´n Billy "The Butcher" MacDougall´s Guide to Pirate Parenting: Why You Should Raise Your Kids as Pirates and 101 Tips on How to Do it>/i>.
A hilarious book that will keep you in stitches, Guide to Pirate Parenting is everything you ever imagined a good pirate parenting book to be. It provides everything you need to know to turn your little powder monkeys into happy, healthy buccaneers! Cap'n Billy answers difficult parenting questions, such as:
At what age your child should be able to remove a bottle cap by taking out his glass eye and using his eye socket?
Which offense requires administering The Flying Dutchman Wedgie?
How do you prevent sogging the quartermaster?
What is the best place to maroon your disobedient child?
How do you remove chewing gum or a giant octopus from your child´s hair?
What´s the difference between "plundering" and "pillaging?"
How do you convert your minivan into a pirate schooner?
When should you smack your teenager in the side of the head with an oar?
Each information-packed section ends with "Your pirate´s progress," a short quiz that shows whether your child is reaching his or her pirate development milestones.
W. Bruce "Lumpy Socks" Cameron, author of 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter calls it "…the only book a parent needs to turn his lily-livered land-lubbin´ lunkhead children into true pirates!"
Karyl "Cutthroat" Miller, Emmy Award winning sitcom writer whose credits include The Cosby Show and The Mary Tyler Moore Show calls Guide to Pirate Parenting "the funniest book I´ve read in years! If you´re only going to buy one book about how to raise your kids as pirates, this should be it!"
Award-winning parenting humor columnist Tim Bete has been published in dozens of newspapers, magazines and websites, including the Christian Science Monitor, Atlanta Parent, Big Apple Parent, Northwest Family, FathersWorld.com and ParentingHumor.com. His first book, In the Beginning…There Were No Diapers as well as and Guide to Pirate Parenting were finalists in the Foreword Magazine Humor Book of the Year competition.
Bete´s hobbies include pushing his luck and skating on thin ice. In his spare time, he´s director of the Erma Bombeck Writers´ Workshop.
Captain Billy ´The Butcher´ MacDougall (pronounced "MacDougall") has been hiding from authorities for most of his life. He lives on his ship, The Frightened Flounder, but can sometimes be found at the Crow´s Nest Tavern. His hobbies include plundering and rum.
If you would like to find out more about Tim, Captain Billy, or their hilarious book on how to raise pirate kids, Guide to Pirate Parenting, visit www.pirateparenting.com today!