Christie Mellor has become a vociferous cheerleader and go-to girl for the “other kind of parenthood,” the anti-perfection, you-deserve-a-life kind. Her first book, The Three-Martini Playdate, was a harbinger of a new and important trend for today’s beleaguered parents, helping them to withstand the unceasing and overbearing good advice and pressure to raise perfect, highly enriched offspring. She has been published in Britain in The Guardian, Junior Magazine, and the Sunday Express and in Australia’s Sunday Life Magazine and has been heard on Britain’s BBC radio and American Public Radio’s Marketplace. She lives with her husband and two almost always pleasant children in Los Angeles, CA.