- ISBN13: 9780811863902
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Trisha Ashworth and Amy Nobile conducted interviews with hundreds of mothers while researching their best-selling book I Was a Really Good Mom Before I Had Kids. It didn’t take long before these moms began to reveal their Dirty Little Secrets surprising, thought-provoking, guilty confessions they hadn’t told anyone else. Cringe-worthy moments (’I bit my daughter’s finger trying to steal a bite of her cookie.’) meet real insights (’I love my kids but I didn’t always. It took time to fall in love with them.’). These are the private thoughts that every mom has and every mom can relate to.
#1 by Lisa M. Cromer on November 29, 2009 - 7:55 pm
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This book was cute/funny….until I got to page 102. It says, “I’ve never admitted this to anyone else but I have pinched my daughter’s arms so hard I leave a mark.” From the tense, it appears the author has one this more than once! Pinching/hitting/kicking children is not OK and it officially constitutes child abuse when it leaves a mark. Hurting kids out of frustration or to control them is not okay. It’s a shame that the message to parents is “we usually don’t talk about it, but let’s admit it, we all do it.” When a parent/caregiver is so moved to physically hurt a child, one would hope that they would realize they need some help to deal with their own feelings and perhaps get some parenting skills. This book is exactly what struggling parents do NOT need to read. Let’s think about alternatives to frustration…a time out for mom or dad to cool down, a walk, picking up the phone, or using their own words to calmly express what they want (ie not like Alec Baldwin!)
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by ocean_breeze on November 29, 2009 - 8:32 pm
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One theme oozes from this book — whiny, self-absorbed brats. They take their lives and children’s health for granted. They should try having a sick or special needs child. I feel sorry for their children having such self-absorbed, selfish mothers. This really isn’t book material, anyway. It should’ve been a whiny magazine article, at best! Save your money. Oh, and it’s not even funny.
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by Wanda on November 29, 2009 - 10:50 pm
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Don’t waste your money on buying this book! Every page is a one line sentence. I recommend checking it out through your local library. I was very disappointment! The first book they wrote was a five star!!
Rating: 2 / 5
#4 by A. DeCouto on November 30, 2009 - 1:19 am
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This book essentially has one line (secret) per page. I suppose you can call that concise but it also seemed empty. I read through it in under 10 minutes. Kind of disappointing.
Rating: 3 / 5
#5 by A. E. Thomas on November 30, 2009 - 2:00 am
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Just a coffee table book, short and simple. I thought it was a longer read when I bought it.
Rating: 2 / 5