Joann Narin confesses she has her hands full parenting her three active young children: Joshua, 5, Allysa, 3, and baby Aleana, 4 months. She'd like her big sister Christy Lokan's support, and a little respect for the job she does on the home front. But Christie, a single mother with one pre-adolescent child, thinks Joann is a whiner and constantly criticizes her little sister for not doing things better...that is, Christie's way. Older is wiser, says Christie: she did the parenting thing first, so why can't Joann just imitate her methods? As she takes over as crash test mommy of her little sister's brood for the next 48 hours, Christie intends to prove the superiority of her own firm parenting skills to Joann. Though she talks a good game, maybe Christie is under the impression that parenting is a snap because she herself still lives at home, with her own middle-aged mother doing all the household cooking and cleaning! What will transpire as Sergeant-Major Christie encounters 24/7 parenting of three kids, with no grandma pitching in on all the chores? Will Christie, as she herself predicts, sail through the next two days with flying colours, or will she, instead, find herself overwhelmed by the amount of work and stress involved? More importantly, will the crash test mommy experience help the two sisters become closer and more respectful of each other?
—Anonymous