Parenting is Hard as F***! We Know that parenting is tough, but as a Black parent, You are tougher. This book is your lifetime, offering 53 powerful affirmations meticulously crafted to uplift, inspire, and renew your spirit when the days are harder and you've already been to 4 extracurricular activities with your kid after working a full day!

This book was crafted NOT for the perfect parent, but the Black parent who stays in the car for an hour before coming in the house or the Black parent who isn't trying to recreate generational trauma with a belt. This is for the Black parent who's honest about their journey and is tired.

About Dr.Myrick

The Proof of Desire is In the Pursuit...

This is a quote that continues to guide Dr. Jamal J. Myrick's life.

Dr.Myrick is the founder of melanatedandeducated.com, a space focused on sharing uplifting and engaging stories about the Black experience in the word today. These stories serve as counternarratives to the mainstream stories shared in the word. His first self-published book, Dear Black Dads: Wisdom for your Journey to Fatherhood, is a labor of love to all the Black fathers who are striving to create change for their families.

As a father, husbae, brother, and leader, Dr.Myrick is always searching for an opportunity to tell stories that influences the world. In addition to serving his family and community, Dr.Myrick is a higher education scholar practitioner who strives to create access for those from underrepresented population. He's has won multiple awards for his work focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion and continues to challenge systems of injustice. In his spare time, ha's loving on his family, servicing his local community, writing, journaling, and reading. Dr.Myrick Lives with his family in sunny California.

You can Contact him at
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Parenting is Hard x F1RST Creations Collaboration

Dear Black Dads
Wisdom For Your Journey To Fatherhood?

The People Have Spoken!

The title alone describes how I feel: parenting is hard as f***! Yet, this book helped me realize that I'm not in this alone and I have a community of people who've experienced the same things! These affirmations really helped me understand this even more.

Niko Tomlinson

Customer Service Rep

Parenting is Hard AF is a powerfully bold and culturally specific (read: Black AF) parenting empowerment book for Black parents. As a proud mom of two beautiful Black children, I have experienced feeling unsure about if I’m doing it right and often pray that I am. Parenting is likely the oldest responsibility of humankind, yet there is no official playbook. We’re all just trying to figure it out and do the best we can with the tools we are provided.

K. Henderson

Positive Women Meet Up, LLC

This book catches the attention of not only Black parents, but Black parents who seek authenticity of what parenthood actually can be. Parenting is Hard AF is raw and its organic passages make the reader feel as if someone who is a parent feels connected to the experience. As a sophomore book, its lived up to your initial release of Dear Black Dads, but feels more raw and real to the true experience of Black parenting...

Dante Bonilla

Entrepreneur

"As New parent myself, Parenting is Hard As F***, couldn't have come at a better time. Having these affirmations front and center remind me that I'm a great black dad parent and that I'm doing my best..."

Dr. Tristen Brenaé Johnson

The Tristen Johnson LLC

Thank you for caring enough about our community to do something like this. It's not often I get time to myself to think with so much going on, but this was a helpful reminder that I'm important too.

Ali Lamaj Bey

Investor

Events

Book Signings/Events

Join us in a journey through words and imagination at various gatherings, book signings, and interactive discussions. Stay updated on upcoming events, where you can meet Jamal, share in the difficulties/beauty of parenting, engage in stimulating conversations, and discover the magic that lies within the pages of Dr. Myrick's latest creations.

Book Signings/Events

Join us in a journey through words and imagination at various gatherings, book signings, and interactive discussions. Stay updated on upcoming events, where you can meet Jamal, share in the difficulties/beauty of parenting, engage in stimulating conversations, and discover the magic that lies within the pages of Dr. Myrick's latest creations.

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Speaking Engagements, And
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