Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780767930697)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A "hilarious, heartbreaking, and edgy" (Newsweek) memoir on modern motherhood.

In our mothers' day there were good mothers, indifferent mothers, and occasionally, great mothers. Today we have only Bad Mothers: If you work, you're neglectful; if you stay home, you're smothering. If you discipline, you're buying them a spot on the shrink's couch; if you let them run wild, they will be into drugs by seventh grade. Is it any wonder so many women refer to themselves at one time or another as a "bad mother"?

Writing with remarkable candor, and dispensing much hilarious and helpful advice along the way--Is breast best? What should you do when your daughter dresses up as a "ho" for Halloween?--Ayelet Waldman says it's time for women to get over it and get on with it in this wry, unflinchingly honest, and always insightful memoir on motherhood in today's world.

Author: Ayelet Waldman
ISBN-10: 076793069X
ISBN-13: 9780767930697
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 05/04/2010
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.22w x 0.69d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 05/09/2010 pg. 24
Entertainment Weekly 07/23/2010 pg. 87