{"id":1281,"date":"2010-05-12T11:22:51","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T19:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2010-05-12T11:22:51","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T19:22:51","slug":"book-review-bad-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/?p=1281","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Bad Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/5664839-bad-mother\" style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px\"><img alt=\"Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1255649245m\/5664839.jpg\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/5664839-bad-mother\">Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/55640.Ayelet_Waldman\">Ayelet Waldman<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/73241060\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As all you moms out there, you know that almost everyone in the world has an opinion, one way or another, on how you should be raising your child\/children.<\/p>\n<p>Bad Mother goes beyond explaining the adjustment to life with a baby\/toddler and explores the struggles, victories and draws that a mom goes through raising a family this day in age.<\/p>\n<p>Ayelet Waldman doesn&#8217;t hold back in this memoir &#8211; she&#8217;s honest, witty and covers a good many of the mom neuroses one may (or may not &#8211; yeah right) have.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, it just reminds us supermoms out there to give each other a break (we&#8217;ve all been there) and most importantly to give ourselves a break&#8230;and a pat on the back because we&#8217;re doing the best we can and if you take issue with that, well, you can just stuff it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace by Ayelet Waldman My rating: 4 of 5 stars As all you moms out there, you know that almost everyone in the world has an opinion, one way or another, on how you should be raising your child\/children. Bad Mother goes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[74],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1285,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions\/1285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}