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I Was a Really Good Mom Before I Had Kids

Reinventing Modern Motherhood

9780811856508

Chronicle Books
Available: 03/14/07
6.5 x 9.38 · 240 pages
Ages 13 years and up
9780811856508
CDN $22.95 · pb

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Trisha Ashworth and Amy Nobile

I don't know how she does it!" is an oft-heard refrain about mothers today. Funnily enough, most moms agreethey have no idea how they get it done, or whether they even want the job. Trisha Ashworth and Amy Nobile spoke to mothers of every stripeworking, stay-at-home, part-timeand found a surprisingly similar trend in their interviews. After enthusing about her lucky life for twenty minutes, a mother would then break down and admit that her child's first word was "Shrek." As one mom putit, "Am I happy? The word that describes me best is challenged ." Fresh from the front lines of modern motherhood comes a book that uncovers the guilty secrets of moms today . . . in their own words. I Was a Really Good Mom Before I Had Kids diagnoses the craziness and offers real solutions, so that mothers can step out of the madness and learn to love motherhood as much as they love their kids.

Trisha Ashworth has produced advertising for American Express, PepsiCo, and Levi's. She lives in Northern California with her husband and three children.

Amy Nobile has led public relations programs for Visa, FritoLay, and Webvan. She lives in Northern California with her husband and two children.

The authors have been on Oprah, Today Show, 20/20, Rachel Ray, Early Show, Fox News and NPR.