What Every Mom Needs
Meet Your Nine Basic Needs (and Be a Better Mom)

The book is really probably better than the 2 stars I'm giving it, but it just didn't speak to me. Maybe it was too girly. Or too cliche. Or maybe they made a lot of assumptions about the readers of their book that I just don't feel applies to me. It assumes that if you have a part time job you are s......more

This book is disappointing. While it does go into what a mother needs (time to herself, understanding, and acknowledgement that motherhood is not a 'nothing' job) the answers provided are - despite the assurance that the book is useful to someone "Whatever your heritage or faith" - rather biblical.......more

It's not easy being a Mom. Yes it is very rewarding but there are days when you throw your hands up in despair....those down days. What Every Mom Needs is that book you should pick up to get things into perspective and help you learn that 'being a great Mom and a person in your own right go hand in......more

"Mothers of preschoolers overwhelmingly report that their greastest struggle is with loneliness, a feeling of being disconnected or isolated." Intimacy means "into me see" Stumbling blocks to intimacy: I'm too tired to be friendly I don't want to risk making a friend when one of us will probably move aw......more

This was just the book I was looking for to remind me that the challenges of new moms are universal (not unique to me) and to do so in a faithful. Christian way. This would be even better read with mom-friends or as part of a MOPS group, but I read it by myself, a little each night over several week......more