When Did I Get Like This?: The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, and Other Mothers I Swore I’d Never Be is a book of essays from Amy Wilson. I had expected humor, and she delivered that, but I was surprised that many of them were also delivered with introspection and heart. They read like blog…
Category Archives: Parenting
The Anti-Romantic Child: Kirkus Reviews Blog
Personal memories of childhood play such a large role in how individuals may approach the role of parenthood, for better or worse. In the case of Priscilla Gilman, a highly-educated woman living an academic life enmeshed in poetry of the Romantic era, her perspective was fully in line with a “romantic” image of childhood. Days…
Ditch the Joneses, Discover Your Family: How To Thrive on Less Than Two Incomes
I majored in education, but I always knew I wanted to be home when my kids were little. Thankfully, I married a very frugal man. Even though we we married right out of college, my husband was wise enough to suggest that we live on one income. For six years, we lived on one income…
Bring Back Beatrice: My first post on the Kirkus Reviews Blog
Recently a friend asked me what my name meant, and she couldn’t believe I didn’t know. I didn’t dare tell her that I didn’t know what my kids’ names meant either. I didn’t really look at baby books when I was thinking of names for my kids. My husband was ultra-sensitive to “weird” names, and…
The Mom’s Guide to Traveling with Kids, with Giveaway
Starting with my 7 year old’s first vacation to the Bahamas at the age of 5 months, our family has traveled pretty frequently. It’s in both my husband’s and my genes – I remember road trips from New Jersey to Hilton Head and Disney World (having relatives that lived in Orlando was wonderful luck), flights…
On Reading: For Expectant Mothers, and Beyond
We all know that pregnancy changes our bodies, our emotions, and how we understand the world. It’s no surprise that pregnancy and motherhood can also change what and how we read. Like a lot of women, I read voraciously when I became pregnant. A writer and professor, I was used to reading a book a…
A Double Life: Discovering Motherhood, review and giveaway
A Double Life: Discovering Motherhood by Lisa Catherine Harper is a wonderful book. With absolutely beautiful prose, Harper discusses the ups — such as sharing the news with others, seeing the first ultrasound, feeling the first movement, and first time she saw her baby — with the downs, such as debilitating sciatica, sleeplessness, food aversions,…
Cinderella Ate My Daughter
Just like a moth to the streetlight, the cover of the book I was reading caught my daughter’s attention, and she was immediately lured in. The overwhelming pinkness, the wand in the little girl’s hand, and the actual glitter shimmering away on the cover instigated a high-pitched squeal of “Awwww! Your book is SOOOOO pretty!”…
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