Dear Mother, Bunmi Laditan
Dear Mother, Bunmi Laditan
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Dear Mother
Poems on the hot mess of motherhood

Author: Bunmi Laditan

Narrator: Bahni Turpin

Unabridged: 1 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/02/2019

Synopsis

The first collection of poetry from Bunmi Laditan, bestselling author of Confessions of a Domestic Failure and creator of The Honest Toddler, capturing the honesty, rawness, sheer joy and total madness of motherhood. With the compassion and wit that have made her a social media sensation among mothers around the world, Bunmi Laditan puts into evocative and relatable words what so many of us feel but can’t quite express. For mothers who love their children with a fiery fierceness but know what it is to feel crushed at the end of those long days, Dear Mother is like a warm hug that says, “I get it.”

About Bunmi Laditan

Bunmi Laditan is an award-winning, Webby-nominated writer from California who lives in Quebec, Canada, with her family. She's contributed to the New York Times, Parenting Magazine and The Huffington Post, and is best known for the satirical Twitter account Honest Toddler.

Reviews

Goodreads review by destiny ♡ on February 12, 2019

The audacity of a child's demands for love are only matched by the ridiculous depths of the love their parents have for them. Dear Mother wasn't exactly what I was expecting, in good ways and bad. Having followed the author on Facebook for the last couple of years, I'm used to her hilarious, crude, we......more

Goodreads review by Kimberly on April 11, 2019

This was the book I didn’t know I needed. If you are a mother and you struggle with loving yourself, your kids, your life-this book is for you. It won’t fix anything but it will help you feel less alone.......more

Goodreads review by Erica on July 13, 2024

A couple of these poems hit my right in the feels. I nodded my head a LOT.......more

Goodreads review by Christina on January 17, 2020

I needed this. ❤......more

Goodreads review by Sue on April 09, 2019

I LOVED this book. I’ve been trying to find poetry that speaks to me - that doesn’t feel like a disenchanted teenager raging against the machine. A literature professor once talked about how poetry is for the heart, not the head; and this collection really felt like forgiveness, love, wonder, warmth......more

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