Lessons From A Default Parent
Lessons From A Default Parent
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What nobody tells you about parenthood, from one of the 'silent partners' behind the Parenting Hell podcast.
School-run coordinator, party planner, clubs organiser, laundry sorter' and maybe even a 'real' job on top! Sound exhaustingly familiar?
From assumptions surrounding who is going to stay at home with the kids to the never-ending list of school admin, being 'the default parent' rears its head in a plethora of ways.
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This book is for all the defaults out there ' bored out of their eyeballs or so overwhelmed they could scream expletives into the wind for a solid hour ' to know their invisible labour is seen and valued.
With heartfelt and hilarious advice, Lou Beckett provides much-needed comfort and community for the one who is depended on the most (and often feels appreciated the least), and maybe ' just maybe ' how we can begin to rebalance the parenting scales and muddle through a little better, together.
Hardback, 240 pages, published by DK Publishing, 2026
About the author
Lou Beckett is a mother of two, ex-secondary school teacher and one of the (mostly) silent partners behind the incredibly successful Parenting Hell podcast.
Having left her teaching job 10 years ago to have kids, she had always imagined going back until her husband (comedian Rob Beckett) got a huge new work opportunity, in turn cementing her own role as - what she coins - ‘the default parent’.
In her debut book, Lou speaks up for the often overlooked issues of default parenting - the invisible labour, mental load and pressure to have it all - in her refreshingly honest ‘warts and all’ take.
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