Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look by Jill Smokler

By Jill Smokler

Confessions of a frightening Mommy is a set of unique essays that take an irreverent examine the underbelly of parenting—things such a lot mothers might by no means admit, yet consider each day. Brutally sincere and hysterically humorous, Confessions will leave you feeling much less on my own within the occasionally overwhelming and arduous global of motherhood. If you’re already a fan, lock the rest room door in your whining little ones, run a bubble tub, and settle in. If you’ve now not encountered frightening Mommy earlier than, get away a tumbler of champagne in addition, simply because you’ll be toasting your initiation right into a very choose membership.
     Chapters disguise every thing from husbands (“If he might be carried round in a child Bjorn all day, he would.”) to different people’s young children (“Other people’s teenagers are only dead, undesirable affects who play no worthwhile function in our lives.”) to PTA fundraisers (“It brings out the worst in people…and who desires an overpriced roll of wrapping paper, besides? How approximately whatever we really are looking to purchase? Alcohol, for instance.”) each one bankruptcy starts off with the easiest nameless confessions from Smokler’s well known on-line Confessional.
     no matter if you’re a mother, a dad, a grandmother, a grandfather, an aunt, an uncle, a instructor, a godparent, or short of contraception, Confessions of a frightening Mommy will be sure you depart you nodding your head in contract and guffawing out loud.

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By Jill Smokler

Confessions of a frightening Mommy is a set of unique essays that take an irreverent examine the underbelly of parenting—things such a lot mothers might by no means admit, yet consider each day. Brutally sincere and hysterically humorous, Confessions will leave you feeling much less on my own within the occasionally overwhelming and arduous global of motherhood. If you’re already a fan, lock the rest room door in your whining little ones, run a bubble tub, and settle in. If you’ve now not encountered frightening Mommy earlier than, get away a tumbler of champagne in addition, simply because you’ll be toasting your initiation right into a very choose membership.
     Chapters disguise every thing from husbands (“If he might be carried round in a child Bjorn all day, he would.”) to different people’s young children (“Other people’s teenagers are only dead, undesirable affects who play no worthwhile function in our lives.”) to PTA fundraisers (“It brings out the worst in people…and who desires an overpriced roll of wrapping paper, besides? How approximately whatever we really are looking to purchase? Alcohol, for instance.”) each one bankruptcy starts off with the easiest nameless confessions from Smokler’s well known on-line Confessional.
     no matter if you’re a mother, a dad, a grandmother, a grandfather, an aunt, an uncle, a instructor, a godparent, or short of contraception, Confessions of a frightening Mommy will be sure you depart you nodding your head in contract and guffawing out loud.

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