A Mother's Place : Taking the Debate About Working Mothers Beyond Guilt and Blame

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Summary: Well-researched, compelling, and informative.
Review: As a full-time working mother, ( I am an elementary school teacher), I found this book to be well-researched, and informative. I would like to comment on another reviewer's comments, however. To the reviewer from Cody, Wyoming who is so incredibly bright...perhaps you should have your mother review the use of contractions in a sentence! "We can tell who's mother stayed home and who's mother cared" is not only an ignorant comment, but also grammatically incorrect. Who's translates into who is...perhaps you meant whose?

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Summary: Anticipated the author's life to be more real life
Review: Searching to better understand and resolve my own inner struggle to determine whether I can succeed at parenting and working I bought Susan's book. When I was finished reading the book I found I had no new insights and much frustration with the unrealistic world the author lives in. I find that most of us working moms struggle to balance our work and home lives. Susan readily admits in the author's note that her husband is more than a 50% parent - something most women would love to have (just read any of the other books on balancing work and family as a woman). But because her life is so far flung from most of ours - (taking time off to write a book, having a husband work at home),the book lacked the practical elements that I was looking for. It is nonetheless a good sociological study. It just lacks the dose of realilty that the rest of us are struggling to deal with. Don't expect to find any answers if you're struggling like I am to figure out how you can manage.

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Summary: Some good stuff, but bottom line-"it don't wash
Review: There is some real truth in this book, but not the whole truth. Been there! I have come full circle (stay at home mom, then working mom for a short while and then back home again-working part time from a home office while the children are in school). There are all types of situations, but life is too short to spend it with an employer all day while your children sit at home, in a daycare center or with a babysitter. Mark my word, life will pass you by and then your children will be gone. Too late then! If you have children, stay at home with them while they are home. Be there when they are little, when they come home from school, in the summer. Yes, we love them, but God help us if we can't give them a few short years of our time.