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Title: Dirty Little Secrets from Otherwise Perfect Moms
ISBN: 0811863905
Author:
Trisha Ashworth
Amy Nobile
Publicate Date: 2008-04-02
Publish: 2008-04-02
List Price: $12.95
Average Customer Rating: 3.5
Format: Hardcover
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Amazon Lowest New Price: $7.43
Amazon Lowest Used Price: $7.45
Amazon Merchant Price: $10.15
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1: cute
This is a cute book; short little subjects, so takes no real time to read as moms don't have time to sit around with their "bon-bons" any more!!!
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2: $10 for THIS?!?!?!
Here's a dirty little "secret" they DON'T tell you in this book: YOU DON'T NEED TO BUY IT - RUN INTO A BOOKSTORE WHEN YOU HAVE ABOUT 15 MINUTES TO SPARE AND YOU CAN READ IT COVER TO COVER WITHOUT WASTING YOUR MONEY! I ordered this book from Amazon because I thoroughly enjoyed I Was A Really Good Mom Before I Had Kids by the same authors. It appears to me that the authors were just out to make a quick buck by publishing the second-rate secrets that did not make it into their first book. To add insult to injury, there is only ONE not-very-dirty-"secret" per page. If you think "My mother-in-law mails homemade cookies to the kids because she knows I won't make them" a dirty little secret then this book is for you.
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3: Disappointing book: says pinching/marking kids is OK
This book was cute/funny....until I got to page 102. It says, "I've never admitted this to anyone else but I have pinched my daughter's arms so hard I leave a mark." From the tense, it appears the author has one this more than once! Pinching/hitting/kicking children is not OK and it officially constitutes child abuse when it leaves a mark. Hurting kids out of frustration or to control them is not okay. It's a shame that the message to parents is "we usually don't talk about it, but let's admit it, we all do it." When a parent/caregiver is so moved to physically hurt a child, one would hope that they would realize they need some help to deal with their own feelings and perhaps get some parenting skills. This book is exactly what struggling parents do NOT need to read. Let's think about alternatives to frustration...a time out for mom or dad to cool down, a walk, picking up the phone, or using their own words to calmly express what they want (ie not like Alec Baldwin!)
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4: Good stuff!
Wife and I got this as a gift for a friend / expecting mother, but admittedly as new parents ourselves, we flipped through it first too. Some of the quips were almost sad and scary, but overall, we laughed our heads off. This was confirmed by the mom-to-be we gave it to. This will go on our list of gifts for expecting-and-new moms. It's good as a source of "relaxation" for anyone unsure of what they've just gotten themselves into and some of the feelings they might be having. Moreso, it's just downright funny.
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5: Not what I expected...
I suppose I should have looked at this book in a store before buying it. I didn't realize it was more of a "gift" book; something you can read in about 10 minutes. While it's fun to read other mothers' "secrets," there really wasn't anything particularly juicy. Not worth the $. Pick it up at a bookstore and flip through it, instead.
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