First, have women not evolved, at all, from the days when televison executives force-fed the image of June Cleaver as the perfect and doting mother? Such crap as this can really ramp up the pressure to present yourself and your children as all that is good and right with the world. Oh, please.
Second, I think the title of this book appears to be less than inclusive.
I know families where there are only fathers on hand. Don't they count in the land of happy-parentville? Evidently, not. If you are a single-father you don't have a need to be happy, so put that smiley-face on ice you men.
Of course, I realize that, typically, the mother-figure bears a heavy burden when it comes to child-rearing and it can be a daunting and thankless task. Rewarding, but exhausting. Exhausting because, as a culture, we do things in a pack perhaps?
Think about it for a second.
If you don't do the SAME pre-natal activities as your pregnant peers...OUTCAST.
If you don't breastfeed (no matter that you may have genuine and medical issues involved in the decision)...OUTCAST.
If you don't Baby Einstein the living hell out of Junior or Juniorette...OUTCAST.
If you don't send Junior and Juniorette to the perfect play-date, pre-school, art-class, dance-class, sport (insert your own choice), college, grad-school, wedding, grandchildren...OUTCAST.
Well, you get my drift and it continues...FOREVER. Ridiculous compeition and these KIDS...scheduled heavier than the President of the United States.
Okay, read the book and become a happier mother, but it strikes me as a book of common sense type stuff.
Frankie Goes To Hollywood said it and I will say it again...RELAX!
Mothers, Fathers, Care-Givers of all types, not to mention-kiddies...you gonna be much happier, in all ways, if you can just...r-e-l-a-x!
#MOTHERHOOD/PARENTHOOD IS NOT A COMPETITION, SO STOP MAKING IT ONE!!
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