Driving Under the Influence of Children: A Baby Blues Treasury

I've been reading comic strip collections ever since the first Garfield books came out in the late '70s/early '80s, and I can say that this compilation might be the best of all in terms of how many laugh-out-loud strips it contains. Anyone whoever had kids, or who has had a pain-in-the-neck sibling, or been a PITA sibling, is going to find lots to laugh out here. While the artwork is weak, the jokes are terrific, and I don't read comic strips to admire the art. This ranks right up there with the best. It won't make you think like Doonesbury or Bloom County used to, but it will make you laugh.

I have all the Baby Blues books, and this one is the best of the treasuries. I loved it.

Great book. You should buy it if you want to have a good laugh!

As a parent of four grown sons, I found this a very entertaining and accurate view of the 26 child rearing years I spent at home with my sons. So I bought this book for my son and his wife who are raising twins, a boy and a girl. The bumper sticker in the back of the book is a nice bonus: "Driving under the influence of children" How true!!!!

Driving Under The Influence Of Children is the latest compiled treasury of "Baby Blues" comic strips, collecting the daily struggles of two parents and the three precocious young children who exist to exhaust their resources, wallets, and supply of clean clothes. Parents everywhere are sure to see their own experiences reflected in the good-natured humor of the stay-at-home "I prefer to think of it as twenty-five years of maternity leave" mother and well-meaning father with noticeably less stamina around babies at maximum volume ("How come when you look after the kids it's 'parenting' but when I look after the kids it's 'not working'?" asks the beleagured mother). Baby Blues remains a gem among comic strips, both in that its characters are permitted to age with the passage of time, and in that it remains as fresh, funny, and all-too-insightful of the human condition as it was in its inception. Highly recommended, not to mention just plain funny.