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Summary: this book rocks!
Review: This book is informational and REALLY funny. I have given it to several pregnant friends who have loved it.
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Summary: angry feminist author in the guise of humor
Review: This book provides a few funny moments, but is not so much a humorous take on parenting as an essay on feminist, ultra-liberal viewpoints.
Three cheers to the author for acknowledging that there are many different kinds of families. And that motherhood can be so much different than acknowledged by mainstream parenting books and magazines.
However, Ms. Gore allows her own politics to color the book much too frequently for my taste. I found her statement that only liberals can practice attachment parenting, and that political conservatives are insensitive parents that just let their babies cry, ridiculous if not insulting. It is great that she is a successful single mother; however she has a subtle anti-male, anti-nuclear family slant to her writing.
Many may enjoy this book; I personally prefer the "Girlfriend" series by Vicki Iovine--much funnier and minus the male-bashing.
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Summary: You don't have to stop being you to be a mommy
Review: This book reassures anyone who is wondering how she is going to be someone's mommy and still be the cool, hip grrl she's always been. Ariel writes a realistic description of both the wonderful and the hard stuff about being a mom and makes you feel like you can still be yourself and be true to who you are. If you don't idenitfy with Kathy Lee Gifford or the other plastic moms in the mass media, read this book!!!
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Summary: What ALL new mamas need most: enCOURAGEMENT!
Review: This book saved my sense of humor, perhaps even my mind, while I was pregnant and about to become a single mom by choice.Other books will tell you about developmental stages, what's considered 'normal' or conversely, what's not -- but this book is the only one written directly to the person who exists, thinking and feeling, alongside the growing fetus and burgeoning identity of mom-to-be. For sensible, down-to-earth parenting advice I recommend pediatrician Penelope Leach, but for writing that speaks to your soul and can make you laugh out loud with wry recognition and/or joy, Ariel is the goddess. My only disappointment is that Amazon sets a limit of five stars for us to bestow -- I'd happily give this book eleven: ***********!!
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Summary: Fabulous!
Review: What a great book and what a hip mama! After you get this one, check out my new book, The Single Mother's Survival Guide. Another book for the hip mama's of the world! God Bless ya...Patrice Karst the author of God Made Easy and The Single Mother's Survival Guide.
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Summary: The only child-rearing book worth reading
Review: When we were expecting, my wife bought every child-rearing book under the sun. I bought her this one. While the other books have caused her endless consternation, Ms. Gore's advice speaks to the world we live in. We have bought copies of this for our friends as they became parents and all agree: there is great wisdom herein.
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