Mother's Day Giveaway a Day -DAY I The Mean Mom's Book: Rule Book for Moms

This is Day One of ThingsMomsLike's Giveaway a Day for Mother's Day countdown!

Maureen LoBue of the Mean Mom's Club has written a funny, realistic book about motherhood called "Mean Mom's Club: The Mom's Rule Book". I didn't know what to expect when I cracked this book, but I have to say that I like what I see. I like that the seven rules cover common parenting ideas and myths that you realize aren't as cut and dried as you had imagined once you become a real, live mother.

I like how she talks about the mommy guilt that we often feel at those moments where we just want them to stop talking and leave us alone (oh, you still have just babies? you'll see). She uses her experience as a Special Education Teacher, Child Life Specialist and Family Services Specialist and MOST IMPORTANTLY, AS A MOTHER to present real-life scenarios and common sense advice and solutions to the average mother.

What I found most useful in this book is that she advocates for following your heart, using common sense, your instincts and operating from the idea and the reality that YOU know your child better than ANYONE else does and every mother's style is very different.

My favorite tips (and it was hard to narrow it down):

• It’s my job… to teach respect even when that doesn’t make me very popular

• Pick your battles… If you go to battle over everything, you will die of exhaustion
  
  and the point of the book (in my eyes)...
  
  
• I’M GOING TO BE THE PERFECT MOM… YEAH RIGHT
  

Maureen is giving away a copy of Mean Mom's Club: The Mom's Rule Book to one lucky ThingsMomsLike reader!

For your initial entry, visit the Mean Mom's Club to find out more about Maureen and come back and comment on how YOU are the Meanest Mom Ever. Funny stories welcome!

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Giveaway ends on MOTHER'S DAY