No More Perfect Moms: Learn To Love Your Real Life (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
This one is a keeper. I'll have to reference it often to remind myself (Weekly!)I'm not perfect and that is ok. How can I make a better life for my kids without anxiety about making messes or mistakes or accidents. Blowing bubbles in the house.... Being silly.... Eating PB &J for dinner.... It's all OK. I'll still plan my monthly menu and at least try to keep up the laundry, some of that will help my sanity, but I won't worry about what someone would think if I had dust bunnies and overflowing baskets of clothes to fold when they visited... Because I am not perfect and that is ok. What a good book, a great message for any mom at any stage. I have spent this last month reading this wonderful book. It has been completely freeing and life-changing for me.There is so much pressure these days to be the perfect mom. It comes from everywhere. We can catch the "perfection infection" every time we're on Facebook seeing those pictures of other moms looking so thin, taking expensive vacations with their families, buying a beautiful new home. We are prone to catch it when we read inspiring blogs by other moms who seemingly have it so together. It's practically contagious when we click on Pinterest and see all of those lovely rooms and spaces that we wish we had in our own homes or all of that photo-perfect food that we wish we had the ability to cook for our families and friends. And what about when we're around fellow moms at our churches, our children's schools, our homeschool groups or playgroups?I have to be honest. I have felt so incredibly {self}condemned by fellow homeschool moms at times. We all want to have those well-behaved children that everyone brags on everywhere they go. We all want to have the smartest and brightest children, the ones who are grades ahead and will probably go to college early. It's much harder to talk to other moms about the problems you're having with your children. To discuss that you might have to get your son tested for adhd and that no matter what you try your daughter just struggles with math. No, we want to put on that good front and put that positive spin on life. We would never admit to succumbing to tears of frustration and failure nearly every single day.This book touches all areas of our lives: our kids, bodies, marriages, friends, days, homes and homemaking. Then in the end Jill reminds us that a "real picture of motherhood would include: no expectations, no pride, no fear, no insecurity, no judgment, no comparisons, no agenda, no performing, no more perfect moms ....just imperfect moms partnering with a perfect God." Some of my favorite parts of this book are in the very back. Jill shares an incredible list of "Who I am in God's eyes" that is so powerful. And there's also her challenge to "Knock It Off: Stop the Mommy Wars" where she calls us to stop our judgmental attitudes and talk about other moms. Very convicting stuff there.So as you can tell, I HIGHLY recommend this book for moms!! Really all women can benefit from this book, because these are things that nearly all women struggle with.
What do You think about No More Perfect Moms: Learn To Love Your Real Life (2013)?
Encouraging and full of wisdom. Every mom needs to read this.
—Dr3amerrrr
Read this for the Mom Group that I am in as a mentoring mom.
—ryan
