When Did I Get Like This? The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, and Other Mothers I Swore I'd Never Be

This is a new book and it sounds hilarious!! I cant wait to pick it up.

This is a review:
She hooked me in the very first chapter, when she talked about motherhood as the impossible task that women are expected to somehow manage and manage perfectly. However, her neuroses has more to do with the outside factors of germs and education, etc, and my worries are more about the kids themselves. I spend my days trying to control these two small creatures that were once a part of my body. News flash: You cannot control other humans, even if those other humans do share your genetic makeup. This book is refreshing. A mother is sharing her struggles and it is like sitting down for coffee with a mommy-friend

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Re: When Did I Get Like This? The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, and Other Mothers I Swore I'd Never Be

This sounds good, I wanna check it out

Re: When Did I Get Like This? The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, and Other Mothers I Swore I'd Never Be

Sounds like an awesome book!!

Re: When Did I Get Like This? The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, and Other Mothers I Swore I'd Never Be

That looks awesome!

Re: When Did I Get Like This? The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, and Other Mothers I Swore I'd Never Be

Sounds great.

I also loved "I Don't Know How She Does It", a funny twist on working moms.

Amzaon excerpt link

The very first paragraph, it's 1am & she's making mince pies - or rather smashing store bought mince pies so they look homemade. My Hero!


Here's a review:

For every woman trying to strike that impossible balance between work and home-and pretending that she has-and for every woman who has wanted to hurl the acquaintance who coos admiringly, "Honestly, I just don't know how you do it," out a window, here's a novel to make you cringe with recognition and laugh out loud. With fierce, unsentimental irony, Allison Pearson's novel brilliantly dramatizes the dilemma of working motherhood at the start of the twenty-first century.

Meet Kate Reddy, hedge-fund manager and mother of two. She can juggle nine different currencies in five different time zones and get herself and two children washed and dressed and out of the house in half an hour. In Kate's life, Everything Goes Perfectly as long as Everything Goes Perfectly. She lies to her own mother about how much time she spends with her kids; practices pelvic floor squeezes in the boardroom; applies tips from Toddler Taming to soothe her irascible boss; uses her cell phone in the office bathroom to procure a hamster for her daughter's birthday ("Any working mother who says she doesn't bribe her kids can add Liar to her résumé"); and cries into the laundry hamper when she misses her children's bedtime.

Re: When Did I Get Like This? The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, and Other Mothers I Swore I'd Never Be

sounds fun!

Re: When Did I Get Like This? The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, and Other Mothers I Swore I'd Never Be

I'll def. have to check them out, thanks :)

Re: When Did I Get Like This? The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, and Other Mothers I Swore I'd Never Be

fun