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The Motherload: When Your Life's on Spin Cycle and You Just Can't Get the Lid up

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I am a 19 year old college student from upstate New York, and I hopefully have a few more years until I have a husband and a family, but I just wanted you to know that I enjoyed The Mother Load from cover to cover. The book caught my eye because I loved your television series and your talk show. It was so funny that I couldn't put it down! I think it's great that the two of you were willing to share personal stories to inspire other women. I just wanted to let you know that it's not only wives and mothers who read your book. I think your book is an inspiration for women of all ages. I'm looking forward to the next one! Thank you very much.

These funny, irreverent women help other mothers to find the humor in the mundane trials and tribulations of raising children. Whenever you start thinking you're not the perfect mother you wanted to be or that your kids aren't the perfect kids you wanted them to be, read another chapter of this book. Caryl and Marilyn will make you laugh and feel better about yourself and your family. Even if your life is perfect, read the book anyway. It will still make you laugh.

These funny, irreverent women help other mothers to find the humor in the mundane trials and tribulations of raising children. Whenever you start thinking you're not the perfect mother you wanted to be or that your kids aren't the perfect kids you wanted them to be, read another chapter of this book. Caryl and Marilyn will make you laugh and make you feel better about yourself and your family. Even if your life is perfect, read the book anyway. It will still make you laugh.

Three friends; seven kids (girls-4,5,6 & 9...boys-4,5 & 8) were at a backyard pool. One friend starts reading "The Mother Load" to pass the time. She could not stop laughing out loud. In order to be in on the humor we made her read out loud. We had such a good time. Each of us took turns reading aloud while the kids swam. When we would take a break we'd share our own stories. We have never had so much fun and related to most of your tales. The "nirvana mommie" was hilarious. We planned to pass the book around, but it's so much more fun to read it aloud with your best friends. We are looking forward to seeing what you are up to next.

These women have an incredibly funny and fun view on parenting and relationships in today's world. I could not put the book down. I ended up feeling refreshed and even comforted to know that I was not alone in my travails as a mom.

The authors can be very clever, but most of the jokes seem to come at the expense of the children that they created and raised. Is parenthood really this much of an unpleasant chore, and are women STILL stuck in such stereotypical roles? Not in my circles. If you don't have children, beware, this book could scare you away from parenting.

My wife picked up this book somewhere. I took a look through it, and was surprised at the bitterness that passes for humor. Such scheming and mental manipulation of family members I have never seen openly joked about in print this way. The co-writers mistakenly assume that most other woman are like them. They need to stop congratulating themselves on their own cleverness and concentrate on the positivity in life--or they should get some help.