The Imperfect Mom: Candid Confessions of Mothers Living in the Real World

by Therese J. Borchard

The supermom is a suburban legend. At some point, we ve all forgotten to pack a lunch, yelled at our kids, or been late to soccer practice. This book is for every mom who has ever gotten angry at... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0767922662
• ISBN13: 9780767922661
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Broadway Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

EXCELLENT BOOK - wish I had read it sooner!

This is a wonderful book written with humor, wit and straight forward truth. The essays in the book vary from hilarious to heart-warming. Easy essay put a smile on my face and many had me laughing out loud. If anything you should buy this book just read the authors account of when her 2-1/2 year old son pushed his playdate into an icy river. All turned out OK and I was nearly rolling on the ground laughing while reading it! :-) The author states that due to that incident she earned the "Mortified Mom of the Year Award". After reading about her self-proclaimed award I knew this book was for me! I originally put off buying this book because of the "Disappointed" reviewer who stated it was superficial. But I'm so glad I finally bought it as it's now one of my favorites. I personally didn't come across anything superficial. Many of the essays were very true to life in that the authors wrote about the taboo things many mom's think about or have done but wouldn't dare tell anyone. If I did have to find find something "bad" about this book it is only that there will probably be a couple essays that you won't personally be able to relate to. But that is going to be the case with any parenting book. So overall I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this book! Don't put off buying it like I originally did! :-)

Love it

I read this while pregnant with my second child. It helped me learn that there are lots of "imperfect moms" out there and that I am not the only one. Sometimes you are so busy comparing yourself to all of your friends that make it look so easy, but then you realize that NO MOM is perfect...this is a great, short, easy read.

Every mom striving to be perfect --and failing on a daily basis--will love this book!

What a fantastic collection of brief, funny and real stories from moms! You can't help but be drawn into a book compiled by a woman whose toddler pushed a playdate off a dock and into frozen, deep waters, where miraculously the child was rescued. Yet, the reach of the Imperfect Mom is much bigger than near-disasters that befell good parents. In it, you feel poignantly the self-consciousness with which most of us mother, and mull the ways in which we too often disguise our humanness from each other. Imperfect Mom breaks it all wide open, but without the preachiness in self-help books, and the variety of motherhood manifestos on the shelves right now. My favorite was Susan Reimer's "I Love Them Differently" about the fiercely individual ways we love our children, fiercely different individuals that they prove to be. I also loved Jacquelyn Mitchard's "I was a Car-Pool Dropout"--the story of her dismissal from a carpool -- the shame of it all-- when she was a newly widowed mom trying to hold her family together. Mothers benefit most today from having the support and the shared stories of other moms. This book celebrates the need for a community of all of us imperfect moms.