Customer Reviews

101 Secrets a Cool Mom Knows

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This is such a great book! Fun (and important) (how to tell a poisonious snake) things to learn in this book. And done with love with wonderful thoughtFULL thoughts at the end of each chapter - "COOL MOM THOUGHTS"! And written - obviously with such love and enthusiasm about being a mom. What, to me, is really great is this: So many times moms have so much "momming" to do that they can't spend the time they would like with their children - and THAT IS WHERE GRANDMA'S come in! There are great and fun things I look forward to teaching MY grandson -things I never would have known how to do (we will view a hummingbird up close!) --- THIS BOOK IS A GIFT TO ALL WHO LOVE CHILDREN!

Darlene Duffield

Just the recipe for the "world's best caramel corn" is worth the price of this book. My kids and I also loved "How to See Better in the Dark" (Secret #19); "How to Throw a Spiral Pass" (Secret #11); and "How to Listen to Your Cat Talk (Secret #4). I'm really surprised that any mother says she knows all this stuff. Maybe she had ten kids or something. I've only got three. What a fun, sweet, cool book. We've had so much fun with this. I just love it!

This book was pretty much the same as the Dad volume, which disappointed me. I was really hoping to kind of get the feminine end of things from this book, since I have a little girl who's going to have her own little series of discoveries. I already know how to whistle through a blade of grass, find the stars, etc. I was hoping for some more variety - how to properly sew a button, or make doll clothes/furniture/what have you. That sort of thing. What I got was a book that you couldn't have distinguished from the "Dad" volume without the benefit of the cover.

Not that I try to enforce stereotypical girl/boy interests, but there are obviously some differences you're going to run across. I'm all about sexual equality,but somewhere you've got to fill both roles. I'm glad there are Moms out there who want to be the expert on how to carry a football or change a bicycle chain. But until guys start developing their feminine side a little more, there's a knowledge gap. One I hoped this book would help fill for me, but didn't.

Some of these ideas are silly to me and not necessary to do. However, some of the ideas are really neat.

This book has something for everyone. Every one can learn something from this book- from standing on your head to arm wrestling, you can be the coolest mom on the block.

Very little in here that we don't all know. The price is right but don't expect anything that will surprise you or the kids. I gave it two stars only because it wasn't very expensive.