The pressure on women today has pushed many American mothers
to the breaking point. It feels as if “doing your best” is
never enough to please everyone, and the demands mothers
place on themselves are both impossible and unrealistic. Now
Meg Meeker, M.D., critically acclaimed author of Strong
Fathers, Strong Daughters, puts her twenty-five years’
experience as a practicing pediatrician and counselor into a
sound, sane approach to reshaping the frustrating,
exhausting lives of so many moms.
Mothers are expected to do it all: raise superstar kids,
look great, make good salaries, volunteer for everything,
run errands, keep a perfect house, be the perfect wife.
Single mothers often have even more demands—and less
support. In this rallying cry for change, Dr. Meeker
incorporates clinical data and her own experience raising
four children to show why mothers suffer from the rising
pressure to excel and the toll it takes on their emotional,
physical, mental, and spiritual health. Too many mothers are
increasingly lonely, anxious, depressed, and unhappy with
themselves, refusing to let themselves off the hook. Here,
Dr. Meeker has identified the 10 most positive habits of
mothers who are healthy, happy, and fulfilled. The key is to
embrace a new perspective and create real joy and purpose by
utilizing such core habits as
• making friends with those who know the meaning of friendship
• finding out what money can buy (and what it cannot)
• lightening the overload—and doing less more often
• discovering faith and learning how to trust it
• taking some alone time and reviving yourself
Mothers, it’s time to view the unconditional trust that you
see in your children’s eyes when they take your hand or find
your face in a crowd as a mirror of your own wonder and
worth. You are the light that shines in their lives, the
beacon that guides them. By implementing the key strategies
in Dr. Meeker’s book, you can be happy, hopeful, and a
wonderful role model. You can teach your children to be the
very best they can be—and isn’t that still the most precious
reward of motherhood?
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