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You're a Good Mom (and Your Kids Aren't So Bad Either): 14 Secrets to Finding Happiness Between Super Mom and Slacker Mom

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I was picking up a book to help me understand my son and his emotions better when I saw this book. I flipped through a few pages and laughed out loud at each page I read. How refreshing!! I told myself I would look at a few more pages and if I laughed more I would get it. After five minutes I couldn't put it down and I was drawing stares from others b/c I was laughing. Instead of a book telling me what I need to do better, this one told me "we all understand and we've been there". It helped me see things in a less tense way and laugh at myself. I have four little ones under 6 yrs, including a newborn, and I went home and read a book for me that made me feel better about ME. What a refreshing concept!

What a great book! Jen helps me to laugh. She also helps me to reiterate to my husband that "smackdown" is not an appropriate bonding experience for him and the boys. For me to realize it is okay for my child to have a Birthday party at home with the family is not going to traumatize my child....me maybe but not my child. That hospitals should hand this book out with the hospital discharge goodies.

We all know nobody's perfect, yet there are a few moms at school who seem to be. They're always perfectly dressed, perfectly organized and perfectly prepared for every volunteer opportunity. Of course, we all know slacker moms, too. They're the ones with stuff spewing out of their minivans in the school parking lot while they look for their kids' school shoes with a minute till the bell rings. But what about the rest of us? Jen Singer's wonderful, witty and wry new book "Your'e a Good Mom" reassures us that the "mom in the middle" is just fine, thanks. Buy this book, get your favorite beverage, and let Jen re-energize you for your most important job -- being a mom.

I really loved this book so much! I let a few of my friends borrow this book. I felt as if I was such a crappy mom before this book, and the whole time I read it I just felt better and better. My favorite part was the "google rash" now & then. It describes me to a T. There is also a part in there about how she took her son to a PT to get his gross motor skills tested, and I just laughed because I just went through that EXACT thing with my son! I laughed so hard. :) I have also read the Pre-school years book of Jen's and loved that one also! She is a fantastic author, and good to relate to.

I ordered this book for myself for Mother's Day and this is by far the #1 "Mommy Book" I have read yet (and I have read a lot). This book does not teach you how to be a mother, rather teaches you how to be a SANE mother. As I am writing this review, I am waiting on two of Jen's other books to come in. She is genius and puts a positive & realistic prospective on being a parent and helps the reader realize, that you are not the only person who is excited to go to the dentist because it's private time... and these feelings are NORMAL and okay. Also, the book made me understand that those perfect mothers at PTA may not be all the perfect and loving your children IS enough! Genius! I wanted to share her book with my friends but I randomly go back to it and read a chapter here or there so I just cannot give it up!

Just when you think everything has been written on the topic of motherhood, there comes another great book on the subject that handles the topic with flair. A surefire way to instill confidence in a new mom, this book hits the issues dead-on. Fashioned in a simple way by addressing the 14 Secrets To Finding Happiness, the author manages to address all "mothering" insecurities and provide encouraging words as well as a bit of a kick in the pants for those self-proclaimed slacker moms! Offers some great advice for mothers of the 21st century. Don't miss this one!

I'll admit up front that I'm bias ... Jen is a friend of mine. And as a friend, I've had the good fortune to see and hear Jen's humor over the years -- on the soccer field, in the pub, at weddings. And I've long thought, and this book just proves it, that Jen is a rightful heir to the following of Erma Bombeck. Why? Because they find the humor in the every day. They are willing to mock themselves while showing us the absurd we take for granted as normal. And they both make me laugh despite the fact I'm neither a housewife nor a mom.
Paraphrasing a favorite commercial of my youth ... buy it, you'll like it. And Jen, keep 'em coming.You're a Good Mom (and Your Kids Aren't So Bad Either)

It's very rare to find myself nodding my head and agreeing with the author throughout an entire book. But that's what was going on while I read this book. I agreed with Jen Singer so much, I almost felt like I wrote this book! It was an easy read, well written, and very fun.

I was at the bookstore with my husband and stumbled upon this book..and I am SOOO glad I did. This book gives you the reassurance that there's nothing wrong with not being perfect. It also gives you a reality check that some of the things that you get caught up in believing are the "best" for your kids, may not be. For example, TV may not be the "ideal" according to the AAP, but for me to be a good mom and not blow a fuse..a 30 minute cartoon may be just what the doctor ordered in the long run!!

Jen Singer has created a rare book that makes you feel better about what you are already doing as a parent. She isn't preachy, and it reads as though Jen is right there with you, like a good friend, sharing her opinion over a cup of coffee. Her tone finds the perfect middle ground between nostalgia and realism in its attitude to modern parenting and she points out a few home truths (for example, regarding the money you might spend in trying to craft the next Derek Jeter and the money you might, might, might get from a college sports scholarship) along the way.