After reading this, I really think Mike Spohr and James Breakwell need to collaborate. This book shows you how to survive toddlers, and James has a book on how to fight zombies with toddlers. And by that I mean when you have toddlers, you shouldn't actually use toddlers as a weapon against zombies.

This book is filled with humor, while at the same time, actually gives out good parenting advice. Some of the situations are presented in the extreme, but that just ups the humor. Even in the extreme, I'm sure there are plenty of parents that can relate.

The images helped to add some extra enjoyment. I don't have children, but if I ever do, I will read this book again to have some sense of what to do. This isn't a book written by a child care expert, just a parent that talks about the real world, not some imaginary place where things go as planned.

I was given a copy of this book by NetGally for an honest review.
Author: Mike Spohr
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group – Voyageur Press
Publication Date: 1 Aug 2017

I was pleasantly surprised. I expected to laugh through this book, and I did! I did not expect to do any learning along with the laughter - but I did! What fun. Mike Spohr writes conversationally and I so appreciated the balance between humor and seriousness. I really think this book would make a fun baby shower or new baby gift. I certainly enjoyed this short, sassy, fun read.

Full disclosure: I am living in a house that has been forcefully occupied by toddlers for the past two years, with no withdrawal or peace treaty in sight, as my youngest is about to get his fully fledged toddler credentials. The Toddler Survival Guide knows what I'm talking about. There are constant stand-offs, and breaches of ceasefire agreements happen multiple times a day.

I enjoyed reading this humourous look at life with a toddler. It is interspersed with mock-historical accounts of toddler behaviour in history - as far back as the neanderthal toddler scrawling on the cave walls. There is also some sage advice given. Take heed. Toddlers are little ninjas.

A perfect gift to any parent on their sweet baby's first birthday, as they are bound to need this shortly afterwards.

Thank you to the authors, publisher, and netgalley for a review copy. This is an honest review.

"If you've ever seen a horror film where zombies relentlessly come after human flesh with single-minded determination, then you've got a pretty good idea of how toddlers feel about candy."

As said, this book is a humorous guide to raising your toddler or praising yourself for life with toddler. 
And that's exactly what this book is! I mean while reading this book I might have laughed more than I actually have laughed during my kids' toddlerhood. I can agree with almost everything stated in this book and the ones I can't agree with, are something that I haven't done with my own: for example we haven't been in movies because I know that all hell would break loose then. :'D
This is great book to those who doesn't have kids and to those who have. At least for me it was an awesome reminder that this doesn't have to be so serious, you can do this through humor which makes everything so much easier with my toddler drawing to those new tapestries we have just put on the walls or refusing to potty training and still screaming her lungs out when she does her thing in her diaper.
After all I'll rate this book with 4 stars. It was good, I had a blast while reading it but I would have wanted something more. It felt kind of like it's repeating itself with everything.

As the parent of a toddler that is slowly morphing into a preschooler. The book takes a humorous approach to the transition to sweet cooing baby-dom to zombie (their words) toddler-dom. I chuckled out loud as I read and looked at the completely accurate illustrations of what life is like with a toddler. On a serious note the title offers fool proof strategies on protecting your cellphone, tips on keeping hairstyles simple (though I would have added there for children with ethnic hair protective styles that can last a few days-braids), and how to change diapers on a plane. Overall this book is funny but also practical in its application of advice.

This was a unique way to give parenting advice. As a parent of 3 boys, that were all toddlers back to back, I could totally relate to this book. It made me laugh out loud at the circumstances that come up. Especially the part about your house; we lost 3 flat screen tvs to our toddlers. I think this would be a good gift for a dad or good humored mom of a 6 month old. I liked how they gave REAL LIFE parenting advice, along with hilarious illustrations, on what to expect. On second thought, because this book is so real, I don't know if this is best to give to a new parent, they may be fearful of what's to come (they should be!) or to give it to a parent that just survived the toddlers years as therapy from their PTSD of raising a toddler (or two). Either way , this was cute and different from most self help books.

This was funny. As a mother of a toddler it was pretty accurate in a lot of ways too. If not trying too hard.

This is a great and funny look on parenting a toddler! Anyone who has been through it will laugh and say how true to themselves! Raising kids is hard and sometimes leaves you on the fine line of crying or laughing so you don't cry! This book has so much truth in it and some helpful hints. Dealing with my second toddler now I truly appreciated this book!!

Basically written much like a zombie survival guide, THE TODDLER SURVIVAL GUIDE is meant to amuse while showing parents how to basically toddler proof their lives. Helpful reminders about needing to step up the baby proofing because toddlers can and will climb EVERYTHING are sprinkled throughout the humor, etc.

As a non-parent surrounded by the parents of toddlers (and a few almost toddlers), the book made me laugh until I almost peed my pants, thinking of the horror stories they tell. It's like a built in birth control book, as if my friends' stories were not that enough already.

The book would be a great present for those parents who need to be reminded their struggles are not unique and they are not completely alone (all though, realistically, those parents don't have time to read a book). I'd also say it's a must read for those deciding if they are ready to have kids :-)

As a parent DEEP into the toddler years, this book was perfect!

Funny and entertaining and made a pleasant change from the crime and thrillers I generally r ad

I really enjoyed this smarmy title from authors who CLEARLY have, or have dealt with the joys of an infant developing into a psychopa-er-toddler. As a mother of a 17 month old myself, when I finally got a breath, wiped the puke and smashed banana from my shirt, removed the lego embedded in my foot and clicked off Paw Patrol for the first time in 16 god forsaken hours, it was a treat to be able to enjoy my cold coffee from 12 hours earlier and the surviving bite of a granola bar while I read that someone similar is going through the same hell....er....ordeal(?)....adventure(?). The advice was sound and simple with a twist of sarcasm and heaps of humor and anecdotes. I have a few friends whose children will soon be bursting into toddlerhood. And I can't wait for their precious, sleeping infants to erupt into insanity so I can share this gem.

If you are the parent of a toddler (and even if you only visit the home of one of these families occasionally), I'm sure you know very well that your everyday life differs greatly from the romantic vision that you had in your mind when you, along with your partner, decided to introduce a new member to your family. The first steps, the struggle with food or sleeping time, unsuccessful attempts at maintaining a social life, and various mischief are just part of the deal you take in the bundle with a small person who has come into your life.

I have read many of these types of books, but this is by far the best I have read!Well done!