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Momfidence!
An Oreo Never Killed Anybody and Other Secrets of Happier Parenting
by Paula Spencer
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Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press (September 05 2006)
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Don't Cry Over Spilt Guilt
Lose the Guilt, Love Your Instincts. If the latest 'breakthrough' child-development theory, parenting technique, or child-appropriate diet makes you worry or groan (or just want to lie down for a nap), it's time to make way for Momfidence! Paula Spencer,

No Experience Necessary!
Sometimes-while standing naked in the nursery at 3 a.m. with a crying baby who has just gotten sick all over my nightgown, or while interviewing some bigwig pediatrician and frantically motioning for a barking toddler in a dog costume to quit eating

No Experience Necessary! Part 2
Crossing my front lawn back to my house, I try to figure out what to do with Baby M. That's when I see all the holes in the grass. Mole holes! 'Welcome home, little guy,'



Book Description

Lose the Guilt, Love Your Instincts

If the latest "breakthrough" child-development theory, parenting technique, or child-appropriate diet makes you worry or groan (or just want to lie down for a nap), it's time to make way for Momfidence! Paula Spencer, parenting expert and mother of four, provides refreshing, down-to-earth proof that most of the business of raising confident, healthy children involves nothing more complicated that trusting your instincts, using common sense, and above all, hanging on to your humor.

Momfidence! is:

  • Using "perfect" only to describe such wonders as a ripe peach, a cloudless day at the beach, or a husband who does diapers and dinner. . . It has no application whatsoever in describing motherhood.
  • Recognizing that there are appropriate times and places for lying, yelling, threatening, bribing, and saying "I told you so"
  • Sending yourself to time-out-preferably with chocolate and/or your spouse
  • Being completely amnesiac about the day's exasperating transgressions when you peek in your children's bedrooms at night and watch them sleep

Based on her popular Woman's Day and Parenting columns, Momfidence! explains how obsessing less and winging it more can keep you sane-and your kids healthy and happy. It's a hilarious look at "perfect motherhood" that cuts parents a long-overdue break by reminding us that we're not the amateurs here-we're all experts, too.

About the Author

Paula SpencerPaula Spencer

Paula Spencer specializes in health and family subjects for Woman's Day, Glamour, Parenting, Baby Talk, USA Weekend, and other publications. She is the author of four books on pregnancy and parenting, including Everything ELSE You Need to Know When You're Expecting..

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