Moms have been publicly admitting to their mixed feelings about motherhood at least since 1976, when Adrienne Rich compared herself to a monster in the feminist classic Of Woman Born. Welcome to bad-mom culture, in which women don't just own up to their maternal shortcomings - they flaunt them. The book is a compendium of Lassally's favorite admissions, which pour in daily from all over the country. "Online, under the veil of anonymity and with 24/7 accessibility, I believed that the conversation about the REAL and not the IDEAL of motherhood could flourish," she writes. In 2007 as a forum for women to share their transgressions. ![]() In the introduction, author Romi Lassally explains that she launched These are some of the "mommy misdemeanors" revealed in the book True Mom Confessions, published this month. Another mom admits, "I can't wait to wean my daughter so I can get stoned again." ![]() One joins Weight Watchers so she has a place to go by herself once a week. Another purposely ruins her daughter's favorite T-shirt with red nail polish. A mother tells her child that Häagen Dazs is a special medicine for mommies because she doesn't want to share.
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