I Was a Really Good Mom Before I Had Kids: Reinventing Modern Motherhood

I Was a Really Good Mom Before I Had Kids: Reinventing Modern Motherhood | Trisha Ashworth, Amy Nobile | good mom before i had kids

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	I Was a Really Good Mom Before I Had Kids: Reinventing Modern Motherhood Trisha Ashworth, Amy Nobile Chronicle Books, 2007 - 240 pages average customer review:based on 59 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

"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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Hits close to home!

After only reading a few pages of this book, I felt as though they were writing about me. I connected immediately with many of the situations in the book. I also bought this book for a friend of mine that had a baby six weeks ago. She said she read this during her peak moment of post-partum sadness and cried all the way through it as she also felt the connection.

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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.

Awesome, worht reading

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.

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"Great Read For Mom"

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!

I thought this book was a bit negative

A friend passed this book along to me, and I read the whole thing on a plane ride after being away from my kids (4 mos & 4 yrs) for two days. I really needed a break from them, and the reality is that most of the "real" comments from mothers in this book really hit home! It was nice to know that other mothers have the same feelings about being at home vs working, and those crazy days when you can't wait until Dad gets home. However, as I read through the book, I couldn't help but notice how the authors really seem to focus on the hard or, quite frankly, sucky things about motherhood. The book came off to me as somewhat negative instead of its purpose to be a support. What about all the great things about being a mother? Even when I have a bad day as a mom (i.e. a child being diagnosed with chicken pox & bronchitis the day before the school picnic and last classes of dance & swim lessons, and same child falls down the basement steps amid screaming crys from neglected infant in background), there are always good things that happen, too. Really. I was reminded so strongly of this when I arrived home from my trip where I read this book and my husband and children came to greet me at the airport. My beautiful daughters squealed with delight and put their little arms tightly around me. Being a mom is not for the weak, but it is so much more than this book relates.

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