What Your Parents Never Told You about Being a Mom or Dad

The creators of the Berenstain Bears books for children now take a fresh and funny look at parenting in the '90s. Just about everything is covered, including how to entertain kids with balloons (``a rainy day activity for brain-dead parents''), handle children at airports, turn them into great readers and deal with each age from diapers to the daunting teenage years. Common sense and lighthearted advice are peppered with acerbic observations-``Only you can inoculate your son against the ugly and destructive macho code''-and illustrated with line drawings in the inimitable Berenstain style. Author tour. (Feb.)