A parenting guide like no other! Jessica Mills, a touring punk musician, artist, and political activist, gives readers a delightful, information-packed guide to having and raising kids without giving up your politics, art, or life.

Based on the popular column of the same name in Maximumrocknroll magazine, My Mother Wears Combat Bootsis filled with a clever and engaging mix of anecdotes, political analysis, and factual sidebars. Despite its "alternative"presentation, it remains fundamentally a practical guide for parents of all stripes. Amid stories about bringing kids (and their grandparents) to women's rights demonstrations, the evil economics of the infant formula industry, taking baby on tour with your band, how to score free infant gear, and ideas for starting cooperative daycare centers, Mills delivers sound, nuts-and-bolts advice for new and expecting parents. Covering issues like weaning, sex during pregnancy, cloth versus disposable diapers, and psychological debates about whether children should sleep in their parents'bed-among countless others-My Mother Wears Combat Bootsoffers a unique, funny, helpful, and hip approach to parenting for a new generation of moms and dads.

Jessica Millswrites a punk-parenting column for Maximumrocknroll, plays saxophone for Citizen Fish, directed a birth center in Hollywood, Florida, makes jewelry in her metalworking studio, is mom to seven-year-old Emma-Joy and one-year-old Maya-Rae, and organizes childcare cooperatives. She lives with her partner and daughters in Seattle, Washington.

Jessica Mills writes a punk-parenting column for Maximum Rock N Roll, plays saxophone for Citizen Fish, was Director of a birth center in Hollywood, Florida, makes jewelry in her metalworking studio, is mom to seven-year-old Emma-Joy and one-year-old Maya-Rae, and organizes childcare cooperatives. She lives with her partner and daughters in Seattle, WA.