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Loading... Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and… (2009)by Ayelet Waldman
None.  KristySP | Apr 21, 2013 |  i liked this book and i enjoyed reading about her life and her children (she and michael chabon have four kids). but at times it surprised me by veering off into a too-indulgent memoir. she makes some very excellent points, however, as she argues that we are all way too hard on mothers, who expect and are expected to be perfect. i liked her call to embrace and allow for "good enough" parenting. i thought she was really right on when she mentioned the berkeley parents network and how extremist and judgmental the attachment parenting people can be. when she was bottle-feeding her baby pumped breast milk, a stranger approached her to inform her that "breast is best". she points out that it seems to be one of the only approaches/philosophies that is characterized by proselytizing. (in other words, parents who use cribs, strollers, bottles, playpens, disposable diapers don't tend to have that attitude of superiority and try to convince others that their way is right.) and even though we co-slept and used a sling and i am all for attachment parenting, she is so right! for some reason, certain believers can take it too far, to the point where they believe other parents are doing it wrong. and that is representative of the larger problem waldman explores. as she says, if we can't accept & respect other parents, we should at least go back to the days where we kept our opinions about the personal lives of other people to ourselves. (  ) julierh | Apr 7, 2013 | Sounds like the perfect book for me: a modern working mother. Old enough to have a traditional mother myself. Wrestling from time to time with what I want, what my child needs and what the world outside my small family thinks I'm 'supposed to do'. BoekenTrol71 | Mar 31, 2013 | Every woman should read this book. We judge each other harshly, but judge ourselves harshest of all. We need to ease up on ourselves and fellow moms. This book is brutally honest and beautiful. I enjoy Waldman's writing and this is no exception. Examining her faults and her strengths, this book will strike home to anyone with kids. (  ) bookwormteri | May 30, 2012 | Bad Mother is not a book about a bad mother. It simply is a book about motherhood in the way it is experienced by author Ayelet Waldman. Waldman, mother of four children, started a controversy not too long ago by saying that she loves her husband more than her children. She talks about this statement in her book. In addition, she reveals many things about her role as mother. I found her book to be brutally and bravely honest. This makes for good reading, but it also reveals the author’s skills as an essayist. I previously only thought of her as a novelist, although I admit to never having read any of her other books before. Two chapters struck the deepest chords with me. The first was a chapter about abortion and choices that Ayelet Waldman and her husband, author Michael Chabon, made in more than one instance as to whether or not she should carry a pregnancy to term. The second was a chapter about bipolar disorder and how this family illness affects her role as a mother. I don’t want to reveal too much as I thought that much of what she had to say about motherhood was so intertwined with who she is as a person. With a new appreciation for this author, I will now seek out her novels. (  )3  SqueakyChu | Aug 12, 2011 |
 I confess that I’ve sat a few afternoons in this Volvo reading Bad Mother (my girls and I being the sort of people who sometimes enjoy pulling over to the side of the road to read), and in the end, I am disappointed. I rush to assure you, though, that it is not the author who is to blame.
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Question: Why did you write this book? 
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Waldman is married to Michael Chabon, one of my favorite writers, and I'm hoping she hasn't ruined him for me! (