num_pages: 224
description: In the tradition of recent hits like The Bitch in the House and Perfect Madness comes a hilarious and controversial book that every woman will have an opinion about written by Americas most outrageous writer.In our mothers day there were good mothers neglectful mothers and occasionally great mothers.Today we have only Bad Mothers.If you work youre neglectful; if you stay home youre smothering. If you discipline youre buying them a spot on the shrinks couch; if you let them run wild they will be into drugs by seventh grade. If you buy organic youre spending their college fund; if you dont youre risking all sorts of allergies and illnesses.Is it any wonder so many women refer to themselves at one time or another as a bad mother? Ayelet Waldman says its time for women to get over it and get on with it in a book that is sure to spark the same level of controversy as her now legendary Modern Love piece in which she confessed to loving her husband more than her children.Covering topics as diverse as the hysteria of competitive parenting (Whose toddler can recite the planets in order from the sun?) the relentless pursuits of the Bad Mother police balancing the work-family dynamic and the bane of every mothers existence (homework that is) Bad Mother illuminates the anxieties that riddle motherhood today while providing women with the encouragement they need to give themselves a break.
language: English
title: Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace
publisher: Doubleday