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When I Was Your Age by Kenan Thompson

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When I Was Your Age

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From a beloved SNL stalwart, some life and parenting advice that will make you laugh and think in equal measure.

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Kenan Thompson is Saturday Night Live’s longest-ever-serving cast member and a star of such pioneering sketches as “Black Jeopardy” and is hugely beloved thanks to a tidal wave of nostalgic fans who grew up on early 2000s classics All That, Good Burger, and Kenan & Kel on Nickelodeon.

He’s also a dad (to two girls) in his mid-40s living in suburbia, and whose universal, relatable, family-friendly humor has created unbelievable appeal and engagement from fans from middle America to coastal elites. Becoming a dad sucked the cool right out of him—and he’s OK with that!

When I Was Your Age is packed with hilarious yet poignant essays that are aimed to offer any reader valuable advice on parenting, focusing on positivity, and having fun in life. Kids, new parents, fellow fathers, budding comics, and aunties who want to pinch his cheeks, can all learn from his biggest mistakes and most triumphant victories. There’s something for everybody here!

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The House of My Mother
Retreat
Somebody's Daughter
My Friend Anna
Dearest
The Love Haters
I’m Glad My Mom Died
The Many Lives of Mama Love
The Rom-Commers
Swan Song
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Liquid
Family Lore
The Wives
Let Us Descend
The Fox Wife
Pretty Boys Are Poisonous
Delusions
While You Were Out
So Gay for You
Here After
High School
Dinner for Vampires
Told You So
Leslie F*cking Jones
Care and Feeding
Free
Sociopath
How to Say Babylon
Did I Ever Tell You?
Cher: Part One
We're Going To Need More Wine
Inside Out
Sure I'll Join Your Cult
Pageboy
The Other Significant Others
One in a Millennial
Notes on a Silencing
Grief Is for People
When I Was Your Age
The Harder I Fight the More I Love You
Bossypants
Astor
Thicker Than Water
The Other Side of Now
You Didn’t Hear This From Me
Dear Mr. You
Calypso
Group
Hunger
The Choice
Finding Me
If You Would Have Told Me
Down the Drain
Just Kids
My Body
More Myself
Theft by Finding
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
Aftershocks
Big Friendship
With the Fire on High
The Uncool
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The House of My Mother
Retreat
Somebody's Daughter
My Friend Anna
Dearest
The Love Haters
I’m Glad My Mom Died
The Many Lives of Mama Love
The Rom-Commers
Swan Song
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Liquid
Family Lore
The Wives
Let Us Descend
The Fox Wife
Pretty Boys Are Poisonous
Delusions
While You Were Out
So Gay for You
Here After
High School
Dinner for Vampires
Told You So
Leslie F*cking Jones
Care and Feeding
Free
Sociopath
How to Say Babylon
Did I Ever Tell You?
Cher: Part One
We're Going To Need More Wine
Inside Out
Sure I'll Join Your Cult
Pageboy
The Other Significant Others
One in a Millennial
Notes on a Silencing
Grief Is for People
When I Was Your Age
The Harder I Fight the More I Love You
Bossypants
Astor
Thicker Than Water
The Other Side of Now
You Didn’t Hear This From Me
Dear Mr. You
Calypso
Group
Hunger
The Choice
Finding Me
If You Would Have Told Me
Down the Drain
Just Kids
My Body
More Myself
Theft by Finding
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
Aftershocks
Big Friendship
With the Fire on High
The Uncool