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It is a well-known fact that I prefer to read YA and would probably be just fine if I never got to read another “grown up” book again.\u00a0\u00a0When I do read “grown up” books, they tend to be of the self-help variety,\u00a0more often than not\u00a0about parenting.\u00a0\u00a0Despite my fiction preferences, I have a couple of kids I need to raise and would like to do it well!\u00a0 While I will occasionally read serious parenting books — like Beyond the Sling<\/em><\/a> and Cinderella Ate My Daughter<\/em><\/a> — I\u00a0prefer to read parenting books that serve up parenting advice and epiphanies with a side of snark — like Parenting: Illustrated with Crappy Pictures<\/em><\/a> and If You Give a Mom a Martini<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 This book, if you couldn’t tell by the title, belongs to the latter group!<\/p>\n One of my favorite things about this book was how easily I could fit it into my busy life.\u00a0 At bedtime, while I wait for my kids to put on PJs and brush their teeth, I usually try to sneak in a few minutes of reading on my own.\u00a0 I sometimes read magazines because a lot of books are so involved that they’re not conducive to short bursts of reading.\u00a0 Fortunately, this book made it easy to squeeze in a short chapter, or at least the “Mommy Confessions” that come before the chapter (collected from the Scary Mommy<\/em> website — http:\/\/www.scarymommy.com\/confessions<\/a>), whenever I had a little time to spare.\u00a0 I have to admit that more than a few of the confessions had me laughing out loud, though some of them were just sad.\u00a0 Overall,\u00a0I think the book does a great job of helping moms see that they are not alone in the struggles they face or the self-doubt that plagues them.\u00a0 From pregnancy and childbirth to sibling rivalry and anxiety, this book covers a large portion of what moms handle and worry about on a daily basis.\u00a0 Now that I’ve finished this book, I’m looking forward to exploring more of the Scary Mommy<\/em> website and reading another of Jill Smokler’s books, Motherhood Comes Naturally (and Other Vicious Lies)<\/em><\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is a well-known fact that I prefer to read YA and would probably be just fine if I never got to read another “grown up” book again.\u00a0\u00a0When I do read “grown up” books, they tend to be of the self-help variety,\u00a0more often than not\u00a0about parenting.\u00a0\u00a0Despite my fiction preferences, I have a couple of kids … Continue reading Confessions of a Scary Mommy by Jill Smokler<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-nonfiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}