For any parent or parent to be, the idea of raising a toddler is enough to bring you to your knees. Everyone has heard of the "terrible twos" or tales of the "threenager." Getting through those two years is enough to make some parents only have one child. But the thing is, it's something all parents have to go through. And dad Clint Edwards understands the stress of surviving the toddler years. That's why he wrote a book about it. Moms.com was lucky enough to have a chat with Edwards about his book and the chaos of raising a toddler.

When we talked to Clint, he was sitting in his car in a mall parking lot. His nine-year-old daughter's beloved stuffed animal has been mauled by the family dog. And while he was ready to just dispose of the toy, his wife came to the rescue. She discovered that Build-A-Bear has a free stuffed animal hospital. So after our phone call, Edwards was on his way to pick up the animal, a llama named Midnight, from his reconstructive surgery.

Edwards later wrote a post about the whole ordeal for his blog "No Idea What I'm Doing." In what has become his signature style, he manages the self deprecation of fatherhood with a refreshing level of introspection. That blend of self deprecation and introspection is not only what makes his blog so popular, but what made his first book, I'm Sorry...Love Your Husband so well received. And with his second book, Silence Is A Scary Sound, he does it again.

Silence Is A Scary Sound hilariously recalls the toddler years through the eyes of someone who isn't too far removed from them. Since his youngest child is only five, Edwards can look back at those years and his glasses aren't necessarily rose colored just yet.

"Toddlers are terrible...they're great, and they're sweet and they're wonderful. But they're the most chaotic time in a parent's life. There are three or four years where it's terrible, and you're living with this poop machine," he tells us.

And it's true. There is no parent who emerges from those years unscathed. We have all been at our breaking point during that time. Sure, the first year of parenthood is tough, but once you're fighting with a two or three year old, you're looking back fondly on the days of having a screaming infant. Because they have nothing on a screaming toddler.

As Edwards says, "once they learn to walk, your life is over." Few things have rang more true to any parent. Toddlers are these walking, talking vessels of chaos and bodily functions. So many bodily functions (drool, snot, and poop are the most frequent.) As any parent of a toddler can tell you, they will push you to the brink. But somehow you claw yourself back from the edge, sleep for a few minutes, and do it again the next day. That's the part of being a toddler parent that he captures so expertly in this book.

"The book is about that niche of time when you're just having all sorts of developmental issues and struggling to just stay away and love this kid. Every time you think you're gonna abandon them in the woods, they turn it on you and you love them again. It's a rollercoaster," he says.

No matter where you are in your parenting journey, this book will resonate. For those of us parents past the toddler years, you can read along and laugh. Because no matter how long ago they were, Edwards's words will bring you right back to those days.

As he points out, "if you are a toddler parent, you're failing. That's just what it is. Toddlers are the great equalizer. No matter who what your status is, you're elbow deep in poop."

Of course, if you haven't gotten there yet, some of the things he addresses will have you terrified. You'll look down at your sweet baby, scared of the sticky hellion they will soon become. And for parents right in the thick of these years, it may be a respite from the overwhelming hopelessness.

The essay where the book gets its title from, "Silence is a Scary Sound," is painfully relatable. In it, Edwards begins with a story of how he found his youngest daughter Aspen clogging the toilet with rolls of toilet paper.

"She stopped what she was doing for a moment, made eye contact, and then went back to business, her face void of regret or joy or fear of reprisal, similar to the Terminator," he writes.

Anyone who has spent more than a few minutes with a toddler knows the exact look he describes. That look almost daring you to say or do something, but not really caring if you do. He goes on to tell tales of his other two children also creating quiet havoc (the story of Norah and the ketchup grosses me out as much as it did him.) But he makes a good point, even though we know to fear silence, when you have children, it's all you want.

"They filled my world with noise and chaos so that silence was as hypnotic as a siren's song," he writes and it's impossible not to know exactly what he means.

Another great essay, "Unsolicited Parenting Advice and How I'd Like to Respond," was so hilariously honest. Every parent, no matter how old your kids are, has received advice from people who think they know better. But most of the time, we're trying to be polite and don't respond the way we really want to. In this, Edwards taps into those responses many of us wish we could say, but never will.

And while the terrible twos are true to their word, they have nothing on the dreaded threenager. Having a three-year-old is like going to war every.single.day. In "Threenagers Talk a Lot of Smack for Someone with Crocs on the Wrong Feet," Clint totally nails what it's like to live with a three-year-old. They feel like walking middle fingers who don't totally understand what they're saying, but say it anyway.

Honestly, there are so many wonderful essays in Silence Is A Scary Sound. Clint Edwards truly does a masterful job at capturing the utter hopelessness but also the overwhelming amount of love you feel during the toddler years. And he does it in a way that will have you nodding along in agreement. Sometimes you may be nodding while laughing so hard there are tears streaming down your cheeks.

"I think I can give everybody a little hope that you can survive," Edwards says of the ultimate message of the book. "I'm grateful to be done with the toddler stage. It's much quieter now, and I don't have to constantly be worried that my child is going to accidentally kill themselves."

As we talked about opening himself up as a father in this way, he admits that creating his blog has been "the best thing for me as a father." He also says that many people have told him what he's doing [putting himself out there] is brave. "I don't think it's brave, I think I'm learning."

You can purchase Silence Is A Scary Sound from major book retailers like Amazon and Barnes and Noble.

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