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When Did I Get Like This?
Amy Wilson
The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, and Other Mothers I Swore I'd Never Be
HarperCollins
April 2010
On Sale: April 6, 2010
224 pages
ISBN: 0061956953
EAN: 9780061956959
Hardcover
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When Did I Get Like This? is the
hilarious story of one mother's struggle to shrug off the
ridiculous standards of modern parenting, and remember how
to enjoy her children Over the last
seven years of long days with little children, I have had
many moments of joy, calm, and peaceful reverie.
This book is about the other moments. Before I
became a mother, failing at something did not shake my
fundamental belief in my capabilities as a human being. But
now that I am the mother of three children under the age of
seven, I have one overriding daily thought: I suck at
this. What kind of mother feeds her kids
dinosaur chicken nuggets? Three times a week? What
kind of mother lets hand washing after using the toilet
slide, as long as it was just Number One? And then I wonder:
When did I get like this? Why do I doubt my parenting
abilities, day after day? Why does motherhood, a job as old
as Eve, have me teetering daily on the edge of sanity?
With each new stage of motherhood, I tell myself I will
never again be suckered by the question, "Don't you want
what's best for your children?" And yet, time after
time, I am. Sometimes, I am right to obsess. Other times,
the record will show, it has been distinctly
counterproductive. I'm working on it . . .
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