The Dysfunctional Parents Handbook

About the Book

About the Author

CHARLENE SEEGER aka CHARBIE DAHL is a lyricist (BETTE MIDLER, “Otto Titsling”, BEACHES; RAY CHARLES, “One Drop Of Love”, MY WORLD; “Wicked”, and “I Called to Tell Ya”, LAST MAN STANDING; “Super Sperm”, “Gonna Try Again”, and “Sex Hex”, GOOSED). She has also written for various TV SIT-COMS, and received sole writer and a producer credit on her semi-autobiographical feature film, currently on cable: GOOSED, starring Jennifer Tilly and Executive Produced by Francis Ford Coppola. Her greatest accomplishment is birthing and raising her twin sons JASON PAUL SEEGER-PONT and NOAH STEEL SEEGER-PONT; the son-lights of her life and her daily inspiration for living…and for writing this book! GARY M. GORLICK, M.D., M.P.H.,F.A.A.P is a Fellow of The American Academy of Pediatrics with thirty-five years of office-based clinical practice. He has cared for tens of thousands of infants, children, and young adults. He is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the UCLA School of Medicine and an Attending Pediatrician at the Cedars -Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California. He has been a peer-reviewer for multiple medical journals over the last five years. “Read this book and remember…better that the kids cry now than the parents later!” Dr. Peter S. Waldstein, M.D., FAAP “For issues of child rearing, this book will be my prescription.” Dr. Susan Schreiber, M.D., FAAP “I think every parent should leave the maternity ward with this book!” Dr. Gary M. Gorlick, M.D., FAAP “I think every one should read this book before having sex!” JEFF APPLE, PRODUCER “I’m not having any more children until I read this book!” HAL SEEGER, CARTOON PRODUCER, MY DAD