Deborah Copaken Kogan was a photojournalist in some of the world's hottest war zones--Afghanistan, Israel, Romania. Her bestselling memoir of those years, Shutterbabe, examined her life on the edge with humor, forthrightness, and a keen sense of the absurd. But now, a working mother in Manhattan, Kogan is learning what stress is really all about. Thrust among perhaps the most overinvolved, overprotective, competitive, and interfering parents in history, Kogan has written a series of essays that evoke and reflect on the particular yet universal challenges she has faced while parenting in the new millennium. Through it all, she maintains a wry and sanguine attitude--a point of view that will serve as both companion and balm to busy parents everywhere.