My Book Made It Into a Brazilian Newspaper (And I May Never Recover)

I was minding my own business (probably stress-eating crackers while my toddler redecorated the dog with her plastic camera) when a WhatsApp message stopped me cold.

My book. In a Brazilian newspaper. Written about by an actual journalist.

Parenting Unpacked landed in the pages of Diário de Taubaté, thanks to the brilliant Danielle Baleiro Amorim and her column Entrelinhas. And she didn't just mention it — she got it.

Screenshot of the Parenting Unpacked feature in Diário de Taubaté.

Danielle wrote about the thing at the heart of the book: how parenthood quietly dismantles your identity while you're busy trying to keep everyone alive. That creeping feeling of sitting in a school meeting, nodding confidently, while internally having a full existential crisis. The person you used to be? Gone. Didn't even leave a note.

She also highlighted something close to my heart: how uniquely disorienting this is for families raising children outside their home country. New language, new systems, new rules, same chaos.

Seeing it described so beautifully in print — in Brazil, no less — made me realise those late-night, cold-coffee, cracker-fuelled writing sessions were absolutely worth it.

Danielle, thank you. You made a very tired author very happy.

And if you speak Portuguese — or just want to see your name in a Brazilian newspaper and feel fancy — you can read Danielle's full column right here in the Diário de Taubaté.

Even if you don't understand a word, the vibe is very "yes, this book is a big deal, obviously."

Parenting Unpacked will be available on Amazon really, really soon.