Peeing in Peace: Tales and Tips for Type A Moms

by Beth Feldman and Yvette Manessis Corporon

This is the perfect playdate for your purse. Are you a multi-tasking mom pulled in a million directions by your precocious kids, demanding boss and starved-for-attention spouse? Do you find the only... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402212909
• ISBN13: 9781402212901
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Sourcebooks
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 0.8" x 4.0"

Customer Reviews

Funny, book, I have already passed it on!

This is really a funny book. I think Beth and Yvette have been able to see into my life as a working mom, artist, career woman, class parent, author and wife. The size of this book is fantastic it fits perfectly in my bag. Nice and compact.

Laughter and Mama-Camaraderie Galore!

With candor, intelligence, and humor to spare, "Peeing in Peace" should be tucked into every mom's purse---and diaper bag! With a non-judgmental voice, Beth and Yvette's personal tales are conveyed in a way that regardless of whether you are a working mom, working from home mom, or are headquartered out of your home working AS a mom, you will smile and see glimpses of your own maternal experience. An equally perfect gift for the new mommy who's heading back to the office or the one who has decided to "stay home", the giggles provoked by "Peeing in Peace" can ease the toughest of Mommy transitions. I highly recommend it!

Couldn't we all just have a sense of humor??

"Peeing in Peace: Tales & Tips for Type A Moms" was a quick and fantastic read. I enjoyed it's "tongue-in-cheek" style and found myself relating to the two authors. After thoroughly enjoying it, I happened upon the reviewer who only read an "exerpt" and misunderstood the tone of the book. I am a stay at home Mom who happens to have a sense of humor! Let's face it, my "working Mom" friends might call upon me in a jam, but I certainly turn to them for their "perks" too. Can't we all just get along!!!! READ THIS BOOK - it's well written and meant to give ALL types of Moms a good laugh.

So funny and so true. Laugh out loud.

Beth and Yvette put into words (and funny ones) the feelings so many of us working moms have day in and day out. This book does not preach or tell you how to be a better mother. It doesn't make you feel guilty for going to work every day (or for playing hooky on the days you must attend a school play or some other inconveniently scheduled family obligation). Peeing in Peace is simply a delightful, funny look at the joys and chaos of "doing it all." Face it, sometimes the only place you can get a moment's peace is in the bathroom. The one at work, anyway. Get this book and laugh out loud.

A Lifesaver For Your Purse

For all busy working moms out there, Peeing in Peace: Tales and Tips for Type A Moms is a lifesaver. In fact, for all moms out there, Beth Feldman and Yvette Manessis Corporon's new book is a lifesaver. After all, most of us are thrashing around in the rough seas of motherhood - contending with the whipping winds of other people's judgments about our parenting, or the crashing waves of our endless "things to do" lists, or the swirling eddies of tantrums and whines from our little ones. And so, for anyone who is breathlessly doggy paddling in the high seas of mom-dom, this book is definitely for you. Peeing in Peace explores the myriad of funny, poignant, and all-too-familiar dilemmas faced by today's moms - such as going back to work; negotiating other mothers at the local pre-school; giving up your beloved sports car for a mini-van; dealing with biting "play-date piranhas;" or the demise of afternoon nooky with your husband. Feldman and Manessis Corporon describe all these predicaments and quandaries with candor, honesty, and a great deal of wit. The most important message of the book is that busy moms - facing all these kinds of dilemmas - need a community. They need other moms to share their stories with. They need confidantes and co-conspirators who will confess, "I bought Dunkin Donuts for the preschool bake sale too" or "I only arranged a play-date with Ms. Jones's kids so I could nose around her McMansion." Through their book, Feldman and Manessis Corporon become our mommy-comrades. And they inspire us to go out and find more. Peeing in Peace is truly a lifesaver...and it also happens to be so cute and natty, you can carry it in your purse!