
30 of Your Favorite Books About What Parenting is REALLY Like
This giveaway is sponsored by Confessions Of A Domestic Failure by Bunmi Laditan.
From the creator of The Honest Toddler comes a fiction debut sure to be a must-read for moms everywhere.
There are good moms and bad moms—and then there are hot-mess moms. Introducing Ashley Keller, career girl turned stay-at-home mom who’s trying to navigate the world of Pinterest-perfect, Facebook-fantastic and Instagram-impressive mommies but failing miserably.With her razor-sharp wit and knack for finding the funny in everything, Bunmi Laditan creates a character as flawed and lovable as Bridget Jones or Becky Bloomwood while hilariously lambasting the societal pressures placed upon every new mother.
Some parents seem to have it all together with their spotless white shirts and their tidy bundles of joy, but are they for real? I want the BTS–the tantrums, the irrational paranoia, the dishes that have been sitting in the sink for a month. We asked you to tell us your favorite books about what parenting is really like and you responded. Here are 30 of your favorites! Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson House Rules by Jodi Picoult Goodnight Nobody by Jennifer Weiner Babies and other Hazards of Sex by Dave Barry Sh*tty Mom: The Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us by Mary Ann Zoellner, Laurie Kilmartin, Karen Moline, Alicia Ybarbo Baby Laughs by Jenny McCarthy Please Don’t Eat the Daisies by Jean Kerr How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult Sisterhood by Curtis Sittenfeld How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids by Jancee Dunn Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay: And Other Things I Had to Learn as a New Mom by Stefanie Wilder-Taylor Go the Fuck to Sleep by Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortés The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin I Don’t Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother by Allison Pearson Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott Toddlers Are A**holes: It’s Not Your Fault by Bunmi Laditan Like a Queen by Constance Hall Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession by Erma Bombeck 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter: And other tips from a beleaguered father [not that any of them work] by W. Bruce Cameron All I Can Handle: I’m No Mother Teresa: A Life Raising Three Daughters with Autism by Kim Stagliano Melanie Travis series by Laurien Berenson You’re Doing a Great Job: 100 Ways You’re Winning at Parenting by Biz Ellis and Theresa Thorne Babyhood by Paul Reiser Parenting: Illustrated with Crappy Pictures by Amber Dusick Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace by Ayelet Waldman Dad is Fat by Jim Gaffigan
Some parents seem to have it all together with their spotless white shirts and their tidy bundles of joy, but are they for real? I want the BTS–the tantrums, the irrational paranoia, the dishes that have been sitting in the sink for a month. We asked you to tell us your favorite books about what parenting is really like and you responded. Here are 30 of your favorites! Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson House Rules by Jodi Picoult Goodnight Nobody by Jennifer Weiner Babies and other Hazards of Sex by Dave Barry Sh*tty Mom: The Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us by Mary Ann Zoellner, Laurie Kilmartin, Karen Moline, Alicia Ybarbo Baby Laughs by Jenny McCarthy Please Don’t Eat the Daisies by Jean Kerr How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult Sisterhood by Curtis Sittenfeld How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids by Jancee Dunn Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay: And Other Things I Had to Learn as a New Mom by Stefanie Wilder-Taylor Go the Fuck to Sleep by Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortés The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin I Don’t Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother by Allison Pearson Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott Toddlers Are A**holes: It’s Not Your Fault by Bunmi Laditan Like a Queen by Constance Hall Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession by Erma Bombeck 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter: And other tips from a beleaguered father [not that any of them work] by W. Bruce Cameron All I Can Handle: I’m No Mother Teresa: A Life Raising Three Daughters with Autism by Kim Stagliano Melanie Travis series by Laurien Berenson You’re Doing a Great Job: 100 Ways You’re Winning at Parenting by Biz Ellis and Theresa Thorne Babyhood by Paul Reiser Parenting: Illustrated with Crappy Pictures by Amber Dusick Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace by Ayelet Waldman Dad is Fat by Jim Gaffigan