I Was a Really Good Mom Before I Had Kids: Reinventing Modern Motherhood | 
|  | | | Title: | I Was a Really Good Mom Before I Had Kids: Reinventing Modern Motherhood | | Author: | Trisha Ashworth
Amy Nobile | | Publisher: | Chronicle Books | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 19 April, 2007 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 081185650X / 9780811856508 | | List Price: | $18.95 | | You Save: | $6.06 | | Amazon Price: | $12.89 | |
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"I don't know how she does it!" is an oft-heard refrain about mothers today. Funnily enough, most moms agree they have no idea how they get it done, or whether they even want the job. Trisha Ashworth and Amy Nobile spoke to mothers of every stripe working, stay-at-home, part-time and found a surprisingly similar trend in their interviews. After enthusing about her lucky life for twenty minutes, a mother would then break down and admit that her child's first word was "Shrek." As one mom put it, "Am I happy? The word that describes me best is challenged." Fresh from the front lines of modern motherhood comes a book that uncovers the guilty secrets of moms today . . . in their own words. I Was a Really Good Mom Before I Had Kids diagnoses the craziness and offers real solutions, so that mothers can step out of the madness and learn to love motherhood as much as they love their kids.
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Customer Reviews:
• "great Read For Mom" 14 July, 2008
I orginally checked this book out through my local library. I loved it so much I bought my own copy from Amazon! Every mother can relate to this book!
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3LILZ48RC9HDE
• Perfect For Even The Mom-to-be! 28 August, 2008
This book is great, even if you're about to have your first or you've already got more than you can count! This book could give you just a small bit of piece of mind cause you are not alone:)
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3VEEUWD3ESNOS
• Nice Package, But Nothing New 31 August, 2008
I bought this book after hearing many friends say they loved it. But despite the claim on the cover that it's meant for both stay-at-home and working moms, as a working mom, I felt it didn't speak to me at all. I don't park my kids in front of the TV to have a regular 4:00 chat with a girlfriend. I don't worry about my loss of identity. I don't thrust my kids at my husband when he arrives home from work, because I am so sick of dealing with them. I have no criticism of any woman who does those things, because being a SAHM is hard, hard work. But there are very few examples in this book of similar things that working moms do, or the particular guilt triggers for us (seeing our kids for one waking hour per day, not making our own baby food, never being able to coordinate a fundraiser even if we wanted to). The title should be "I was a really good mom before I had kids and quit my job."
There's also nothing new here -- many books have covered this same territory. (See "Mother Shock: Loving Every (Other) Minute of It" for a much more insightful treatment.) And the book is very negative -- it made me feel depressed rather than reassured.
If there are moms out there who find this book helpful, more power to them. But I wouldn't recommend it to a working mom, particularly one who actually more or less likes her life the way it is.
- Reviewed by customer ID: AFC3MS7802SLP
• Awesome, Worht Reading 06 June, 2008
I really liked this book. I give it to all of my friends. It offers very good advice on not giving in to the pressures of others and you, personally, deciding what is best for your children. It is also hilarious.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2ZUJNGHWRRQIG
• Good Mom Before I Had Kids 13 August, 2008
this book was so much fun to read. it's good to know that i'm not the only one who feels crazy. and that we are all just human and we will make mistakes.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A17NWQF3B16PHA
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