I thought I would give you a few week’s heads up for our next Book Club book: Be the Mom. This is a BRAND NEW book from my friend Tracey Eyster (creator of MomLife Today).
Here is the description of Be the Mom: Overcome Attitude Traps and Enjoy Your Kids:
The role of mom is often described as the most important job in the world. Rightly so, for so much is at stake during children’s early years and moms are central in shaping character and personhood. However, when the going gets tough (the endless diapers, the continual messes, the endless conflict resolution, the complete lack of personal time, etc.), moms are often tempted to quit their “mom‐job”. While few would endorse an outright abandonment of motherhood, others may recommend that a woman treat her role as secondary to personal desires in order to combat feelings of discouragement and/or unfulfillment. The enemy has laid intentional traps cleverly designed to discourage and redirect a woman towards self rather than family. Moms need to know how to recognize these traps . . . and avoid them. Be the Mom: Overcome Attitude Traps and Enjoy Your Kids explores and validates the life of a mom who makes her family a priority and introduces the reader to seven Mom Traps that may be preventing them from a full, joy‐filled life.
I had the chance to read Be the Mom last spring before it was officially published and it is AMAZING. I can’t WAIT to read it again…and get to chat with you all about your thoughts as well!
Oh, and Tracey is donating the funds she receives from this book to the camp that she and her family have enjoyed going to every year as a family.
If you’d like to read the first two chapters just to see what this book is all about, you can download them for free (for a limited time) from Thriving Family magazine. I guarantee you’ll be ordering the book after you get a small taste!
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I agree wholeheartedly with the premise of this book. It looks amazing and much needed in our society. I’m wondering if you might consider my No. 1 bestseller in Motherhood on Amazon print copies: :The Happy Mommy Handbook.” I do not see a way to contact you through email so that is why I”m leaving this info in a comment. I have a Contact Me page on my blog if you would like to email me and I’ll send you a book. Here is a link about the book on my blog – which leads you to Amazon to verify our ratings. It fluctuates hourly but my Kindergarten book has also been a No. 1 bestseller in PreK/K category and in top 10 in Homeschooling. Thank you very much. I enjoy your blog. http://kindergartenbasics.blogspot.com/p/happy-mommy-handbook.html
My girls (2 yrs & 4 months) are my world, I’m fighting with finding the balance of not only motherhood,but as wife as well. I look forward to this book very much. Some days are much better then others but sometimes it would be nice to get some insite and some advice on how to keep pushing through the messes, the tamtrums, the sleep deprivation, and also stay strong for my girls.
I would love to read this book. As a new mom I often wonder if I am doing it “right”. Hope I win :-D
This book sounds like the ultimate confident boost to know that I am not crazy for wanting to do just that – be the mom. I have two kids and since they have come into my life I knew instantly that my current career path was nowhere near to the desire to raise my kids. Trying to make that happen is not that easy. At this time I am the glue that holds us all together in so many ways, and I find that glue pretty weak sometimes due to any of the many things that cause self doubt, confusion, frustration, and a lack of focus to creep in. So I would definitely enjoy a book like this to remind me that having my kids as my priority is not a thing of the past for women in society.
This sounds like just what I need. I find myself regularly caught in an attitude trap. With kids in their teens, I sometimes feel like, “I’ve put 15 years into this job, when can I reap the rewards?” I know I need to look deeper and after reading the preview of this book, I am eager to read the rest as it will help give the support I am looking for to correct my attitude.
I could so use this book. I raised my 1st 2 children w/o the man, so I had to choice but to leave them so that I could support them. Now that I am raising my “2nd set” of children w/ a daddy I have an opportunity to be there for them. I didn’t have the the stay at home, be htere for her kids type mom as a model growing up, but I would love to give my youngest daughter and son the chance to be my number one priority.
I would love this not only as a resource for myself, but also maybe to help convince my own parents that I am doing the right thing by staying home. Our relationship has been strained to the point of almost ruin. I have tried several ways of telling them that this is God’s calling for me that all fall on deaf ears. I have stayed at home for over 2 years now and have another baby on the way. I would very much like my parents to be able to put aside their bitterness over my (and my husband’s) choices and just be grandparents! Plus I don’t want my sons raised to believe a stay at home mom is bad b/c of all the comments my parents have to make about it. One last-ditch effort we have thought of to show them this is the right choice for us is to sit down and track every dollar I prevent from leaving the house vs. how much I brought in when I worked an hourly job. I can tell you without a doubt, I save us more than I’ve ever made. I do all kinds of homemade everything that I wouldn’t have time or energy for if I had a job outside the home. Even if I don’t win, I hope these words will encourage someone else, b/c I know I’m not the only one w/o supportive parents.
I would love the opportunity to read this book. I am a mother of four – Savannah(10), Jimmy(9), Erica(7) and Katie(6). I was owner/operator of my own family child care for ten years while raising my children and am now in my second year of teaching preschool part time. I am also a part time photographer. I have followed “I can teach my child” and loved learning so many things from all the posts. From daily activities, to photography tips, this site is simply awesome and so helpful.
I have yet to find the “key” to balance in my life. I spend time helping at the school as room parent and yearbook committee, leading scout troops, having “play dates”, teaching CCD, and taxiing to Softball, orchestra concerts and countless other places. I feel like I am constantly behind and can’t catch up. Housework takes a back burner and that leads to frustration in other areas. I would like to learn how to tone it down and find that balance, if I can. My no’s turn in to “NOokay’s”. I’d love to learn how to prioritize and organize my responsibilities.
I read the first couple of chapters from the Thriving family website and was completely engaged. I am this mom….a one time career woman turned stay at home mom with 4 girls and my first year of homeschooling. Oh My I need help :-)
I am always looking for ways to be a better mom. I love my 2 daughters endlessly, but the constant testing of my patience sometimes leaves me questioning my approaches. I am always interested in other people’s perspectives and am looking forward to reading this. (i will have to squeeze in the time! lol.)
Hope I get a copy! ;P
From what I have read about this book, I think that this would be a great asset to my life & to my boys. Trying to balance being a mom, wife and working mom including starting a new business while making my boys the top priority can be challenging and ensuring that I am giving them the best attitude & mommy they need is what I desire the most.
Love all of your site.
Just trying to not get discouraged about being a full time mom. Looks like this book could really help me. Hope I win :)
Sounds like something I could use! Definitely swing from one spectrum to the other…I am woman hear me roar to I can’t do this anymore!!