FROM SUCKERMOTHER TO SMART MOM

I'm too stressed out and tired even to have sex with my husband any more! That's the universal complaint of mothers with young children today. And no matter how much these mothers schlep their kids from one activity to another and shell out big bucks for extravagant birthday parties and every educational toy they feel they are not doing enough. Maxine Schnall executive director of Wives Self Help Foundation Inc. and Leslie Levin who between them have five kids four step-children and seven grand-children are here to say that there's an easier less costly way to raise your children than the current extreme parenting craze- a smart mom way that will turn out happier even more successful kids! Not only will you be calmer sexier and able to enjoy life more fully when you stop overscheduling your kids and micromanaging their lives but your children will feel less anxious be more creative and have healthy values and a zest for life. Hip funny and loaded with eye-popping well-researched information FROM SUCKERMOTHER to SMART MOM gives you down-and-dirty strategies you won't find in any other parenting book. There's also a whole glossary of original terms that are bound to become part of everyday language. You'll learn: · The truth about breast-feeding (versus what the lactation Nazis say) · How to resist being intimidated by momsters- self-appointed paragons of motherhood · How to use the Husband Handoff Maneuver and bedtime brownie points to get your husband to do more with the kids · How to develop the mommy mojo to deal with difficult children · How not to let the family income go down the Money Drain · and much much more. FROM SUCKERMOTHER to SMART MOM is a terrifically liberating book no mother of young children should be without. It will deliver you from the suckermotherhood imposed by outside influences and restore balance in your life as a devoted mom and a fun-loving sensual woman.